I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs...

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

…only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd, odd it is!

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In...

It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.

In my family strange is relative.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

People are strange . . .

Normal….What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now?Would our normal, become our new wierd?

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men […] In the hush his...

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with...

What’s foreign one can’t always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can’t endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in...

I’m an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked...

Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu’elles étaient inconnues.

There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me – this death called strangeness, this snapping of all the customary little threads of cause and...

Se sei diverso hai due possibilità: o ti distingui o cerchi di passare inosservato

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures’ magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange