“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?”

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”

“Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.”

“Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.”

“I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.”

“The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.”