Unconventional View Quotes

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

Of course I am not going to be the favorite pick of everybody. That's because some people don't see things from my perspective.

I haven't even watched that many movies; I'm, like, a weird actor.

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.