“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”

“One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.”

“One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.”

“Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.”

“I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.”

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment, and conform their mode of living substantially to our civilization. This civilization may not be the best possible, but it is the best the Indians can get. They cannot escape it, and must either conform to it or be crushed by it. The tribal relations should be broken up, socialism destroyed, and the family and the autonomy of the individual substituted.”