Quotes About Nonconformity

Why be normal? What's the point?

You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more of that. Please.

I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

Sanity's overated, my darling.

No one was normal, not really.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet 'L' on my forehead. Why does everyone have to put you in a box and nail the lid on it? I don't know what I am—polymorphous and perverse. Shit. I don't even know if I'm white. I'm me. That's all I am and all I want to be. Do I have to be something?

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

God forbid that I should ever be a good influence on anybody.

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.

He had more than his share of that streak of anarchy which was the birthright of every American;

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

No wife, no horse, no mustache

I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.

He who would be a man must be a nonconformist.

At certain points in history it may be fashionable to be different and rebellious, but if a lot of people are playing that role, there is nothing different or rebellious about it.

To follow precisely the lead of others or advice from a book is self-defeating

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.

Regulile erau simple: fara reguli.