Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm allergic to Best Ofs, canon of all sorts, rankings, comparison. I love the bottomless Borgesian library.

She rolls over, abandoning this pointless parody of sleep. Gropes for her clothes. A small boy's black Fruit Of The Loom T-shirt, thoroughly shrunken, a thin gray V-necked pullover purchased by the half-dozen from a supplier to New England prep schools, and a new and oversized pair of black 501's, every trademark carefully removed. Even the buttons on these have been ground flat, featureless, by a puzzled Korean locksmith, in the Village, a week ago.

Bollocks to the rules!

The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.

None of us have to obey instructions. I consider my own existence proof of that. So much of life is cobbled together when plans go awry. That is often where happiness comes from.

Beware the soul-sucking force of reasonableness

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

We aren't cool and never will be.

I don't mind not being cool.

No disrespect to your people, but we're not going to San Francisco here. I ain't wearing any flowers in my hair, Dean said.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.

Mr. Grote doesn't believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn't believe in government at all. He has never been to school a day in his life and doesn't see the point. But he'll send me to school if that's what it takes to keep the authorities out of his hair.

I don't compromise in order to fit in, and I'm not giving in to any arsehole who wants to make me feel I don't belong wherever I put myself.

those with the habit of line-crossing as a mode of being would never and could never fit the requirements of any state narrative.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

So everybody lives the way they're told to. The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the time. Hair style, clothing, manner of speech, ideas, cars, houses, and everything. Just like they have to. Even the way we walk. But not all the time. Comes a time when everybody breaks out. And that's the only characteristic of human nature I know of. Not greed, not obedience, not violence, nor any of those things the capitalists would have us believe are intrinsic. Only rebellion.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.