Quotes About Nonconformity

I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.

I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or not.

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

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

Love. Love wasn't sweet and light, it was visceral and overpowering. Love wasn't patient, love wasn't kind. Love was ferocious, love knew how to play dirty.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.