Quotes About Eccentricity

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

I have to agree with Artforum publisher Charles Guarino: "It's the place where I found the most kindred spirits—enough oddball, overeducated, anachronistic, anarchic people to make me happy." Finally,

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

SATAN'S LETTER This is a strange place, and extraordinary place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane.

This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then contemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it "too many for him" and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Genius lives only one storey above madness

On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.

Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.

If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest adding broken glass to the tub. If my mother insisted on listening to West Side Story repeatedly, it was Dorothy who said, 'Let's listen to it on forty-five!' And when my mother announced that she wanted a fur wrap like Auntie Mame, Dorothy bought her an unstable Norwegian elkhound from a puppy mill.

He's got all sorts of strange ideas to catch up on.

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

Writers are not the sanest lunatics in the asylum...

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.