Quotes About Nonconformity

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

I'll get drunk & give no shit, & not be a Messiah. - New York to San Fran

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane.

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

Fuck narrative elegance.

A vision of spirituality beyond authoritarianism.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.