[T]he two things, life style and work, have become one…

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That…

— John Stuart Mill

“Yes, I advise wearing the silver gown that he sent,” he said plainly. “When one sends a gift, it is usually polite to make…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

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

— Sara Sheridan

“She had poofy, teased-out brown hair that bounced off her shoulders with every high-flying skip and on her t-shirt was a spiraled sun with…

— Casey Fisher

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

— Sara Sheridan

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…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Amit Kalantri

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

— Dodie Smith

I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to…

— John Gimlette

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

— Saul Bellow

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

— Yvon Chouinard

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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…

— Edith Sitwell

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…

— John Stuart Mill