My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the…

“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

— Edward Weston

“I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings.”

— Gert Loveday

My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known…

— Anne Waldman

“Bohemians. These Bohemians, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams, and their seven children, Biff, Tina, Sparky, Louise, Tuffy, Mickey, and Biff Number Two, lived in…

— Steve Martin

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild…

— Alan Coren

“Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from the pungent…

— John Kennedy Toole

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that…

— Amiri Baraka

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

— Oscar Wilde

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

— Edie Brickell

“[On hipsters:] Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care.”

— Dan Fletcher

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most…

— Steven Crowder

My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and…

— James Ellroy

“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”

— John Kennedy Toole

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac