Quotes About Nonconformity

The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

Don't follow leaders.

I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Whatever your resources, the world was yours to the exact degree to which you summoned the fortitude and faith to step away from convention and orthodoxy and invent your own life. Tay

Vittima dell'intolleranza sociale verso comportamenti devianti.

We are totally dysfunctional." "I prefer 'selectively deviant'. But we'll keep that to ourselves.

Whatever. I prefer our kind of crazy—we pretty much only screw with ourselves.

I suppose if you can write sestinas which bam crash through lines and rules after having raped them to the purpose, then you can be satanic and smile like a cretin beelzebub.

Du bist verrückt, glaube ich. Und ich bin noch viel verrückter als du. Aber ich bin lieber verrückt als normal, du doch auch?

Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.

Their life was aimless, that was, literally without aims. This was what living was about, they said. Not to join in, become imprisoned by rules and inhibitions. One should simply exist.

But you have to realize, there is no such thing as this tidy little box you think you have to fold up and fit into; it simply does not exist. That's what I'm learning, learning as we speak.

Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

Bridegroom: I'm built differently.

The novel cannot submit to authority.

But hell would have to freeze over before I ever wore a dress.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

So what, you live with homeless people?" "We have a home. It's just not your normal kind of home with a kitchen and all that stuff but it's still a home.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.