William A. Drake Quotes

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

I've always been a misfit.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

I'm the black sheep.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

My execution, and the execution of my gallows companions, will be of use to you. May they show you what you can expect of the English government.

The sorry path that remains for me to follow from an obscure prison to the gallows has been trodden by men with more merit than my own.

Malcolm is worthy of death.