There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t...

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Me and a group of friends meeting in private to bond and have fun may appear to outsiders as a shadowy secret society plotting to take over the world. But that’s utter nonsense. That group...

My first gig was ‘The Outsiders.’ I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

I’m not an American but I have always had the outsiders’ respect for the American people and the American way.

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her...

One day, maybe not so long from now, you’ll get to know how it feels.” So you’re waiting, even if you don’t quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really...

the code of a world he’d never been invited to join.

I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals.”The Panopticon

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp …Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it’s insulting when outsiders...

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

The thing that drew them to her was the thing that had made all of them come to Sexton in the first place: they were all outsiders, people on the fringe. And no one, it...

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the...

Most of us don’t want to be outsiders.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a...