Quotes About Nonconformity

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

I'm an adult and this is my house. I can grow what I like in my garden. Wear what I choose. What difference does it make what you or anyone else thinks of as normal? Why the f should I care if you approve?

Everyone up here had two stories : the life before and the life now. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you. No one cared if you had an old car on your deck, let alone a rusted fridge. Any Life that could be imagined could be lived up here.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."

Yo no busco en las personas ni la bondad ni la buena educación siquiera..., aunque creo que esto último es imprescindible para vivir con ellas. Me gustan las gentes que ven la vida con ojos distintos que los demás, que consideran las cosas de otro modo que la mayoría... Quizá me ocurra esto porque he vivido siempre con seres demasiado normales y satisfechos de ellos mismos...

Women do not benefit from doctrinaire regulations of the one right way to be

An extraordinary girl can't have an ordinary life. Don't judge yourself. Love yourself. Love, Beck

only crazy people capitalize every word.

Why would I want to fit in?

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it's hard to get it organized.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Never do what they expect,

I left the next morning... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.

In addition to going against the herd, you've said one of your techniques is to set yourself outside the process. What do you mean exactly? How do you get outside? I am outside. I am a thinking participant and thinking means putting yourself outside the subject you think about. Perhaps it comes easier to me than to many others because I have a very abstract mind and I actually enjoy looking at things, including myself, from the outside.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.