Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up...

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Do something: be it good or evil, if they ask why you did it, tell them you’re different.

I’d rather be a little weird than all boring.

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have...

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

When your head is about to explode, you shouldn’t dare call in a psychiatrist because you’re about bringing new ideas to world that will later label you a freak.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true.

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Thinking more about what...

I didn’t just voluntarily quit the relationship, did i? I slept and snore, didn’t i? And couldn’t even remember when you strolled away.

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect)...

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn’t share her body with any of them.

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

It was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life and be a law unto herself without her eccentricities being reckoned to...

That’s the nice way.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach,...

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange...

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings.