I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

The problem is normal wasn't in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.

Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

A man is known by the books he reads.

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Nothing distracts one from one's true purpose in life more than following the crowd mentality.

Many men wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.

If you start to do things that nobody does, you will get things that nobody gets.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting

{...} what I wish for Chizalum is the following: that she is full of opinions, and that her opinions stem from a well-informed, humane, and open mind. That she have health and happiness. That she have...

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Children are not coloring books. We cannot fill them with our favorite colors.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a...

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.

I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are....

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses...