Unconventional Experience Quotes

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

I don't think my experience with professional football has been what you'd call normal but I don't regret it.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.

As soon as I was tall enough, my dad used to let me drive him 60 miles or 70 miles to work. That was pretty fun. My dad was really old. At the time, he was 82 years old. He said, 'Can you drive?' and I said 'Yes.' I guess I didn't find it to be that crazy.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'

'Dredd' was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.

I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.