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

Dare to be different.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

{...} 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.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.

This is what they have in place of freedom-time and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite...

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

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and...

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...