Alexei Panshin Quotes

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.

It has always been my aim to live everyday like Halloween by celebrating individuality and creative freedom within a world of horror.

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be.

The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others