Quotes About Unconventional

One thing people would be surprised to know about me: I have a mean roundhouse kick. And my guilty pleasure? Deep fried pig ears!

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I'm a surprisingly good rapper.

I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they're quite odd.

I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.

My life's been surreal from start to finish.

My world is so surreal.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

What do you do when you get mad—dance a tango with a ground squirrel?

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass

I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.

vessels with mini-subs and helicopters attached. As well as undertaking the more conventional

Worldly wisdom teaches that is it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist: that's why bad love is still good love. It may make us unhappy, but it insists that the mechanical and the material needn't be in charge

Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise above the conventional'.

poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

cunt on the blackboard.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I'm very much down to earth - just not this earth.

Part of the corrupt charm of big cities is their acceptance of the wacky, weird, and outrageous within business as usual.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.