You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
People are strange . . .
…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 entrance creates, the...
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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?
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up...
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
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...
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 eff...