My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have not fit in in maybe five different countries so far. I am homelandless. I even make mistakes when I speak Bulgarian. But it's not big deal, not really. It's not the end of the world, right? It's okay.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

Anything that causes you to change who you are just to fit in is not good for you.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.

[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]