Quotes About Unconventional

Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

To begin, it is narrated by Death!

I have thoughts about this. Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

He walks through social barriers and taboos as if they were cobwebs.

This was, after all, New Orleans in 1890- the Crescent City of the Gilded Age, where aliases of convenience and unconventional living arrangements were anything but out of the ordinary, at least in certain parts of town. Identities were fluid here, and names and appearances weren't always the best guide to telling who was who.

A]ccording to Hell's Best Friend, by Jan Holden, if you were unfortunate enough to order a Manhattan at the Humboldt in Grays Harbor, Washington, the owner, Fred Hewett (who apparently didn't much care for anyone who drank cocktails), would pour a mixture of whiskey, gin, rum, brandy, aquavit, and bitters into a beer mug, top it up with beer, and stir it with his finger before handing it to you.

Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.

What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.

SCHISMATRIX is a creeping sea-urchin of a book—spikey and odd. It isn't very elegant, and it lacks bilateral symmetry, but pieces of it break off inside people and stick with them for years.

This has been an interesting fucking week.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Math is radical!

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat.

Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.