#individuality

"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"

"Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"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."

"I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I"in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I"in independence, individuality and integrity."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness."

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

"Everyone’s different, and in that way everyone’s the same. Stand out by sitting down. Try my love seat—it’s made for two people, so you can be comfortably obese."

"A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God."

"The difference between you and everyone else, is everyone else. And that’s a lot, so you should feel special."

"Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do we mean we want more originality and individuality? Less TV, more reading, writing, actual thinking? Less sheep, more shepherd pie? Yes, yes, and a little more pie, please. Oh, and some more sweet tea, too"

"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."

"To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…"

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."

"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."