Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label.

I think that being an outsider has been very important for me because it made it possible for me to take a different look at the world we live in and at my place in it.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

I have an interest in the outsider…In fiction you’re not often writing about the typical, you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour … another part comes from my personality: I’m an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.

As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're willing to share. For me it was humor. I learned that even though I didn't belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing.

The outsiders. I’m interested in the people that don’t necessarily fit and the thing that gives you permission to be uncomfortable. I like dark work because you’re forced to learn about certain things…

it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider.

What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.

When a rule is enforced, the person who is supposed to have broken it may be seen as a special kind of person, one who cannot be trusted to live by the rules agreed upon by the group. He is regarded as an outsider. But the person who is thus labeled an outsider may have a different view of the matter. He may not accept the rule by which he is being judged and may not regard those who judge him as either competent or legitimately entitled to do so. Hence, a second meaning of the term emerges: the rule-breaker may feel his judges are outsiders.

a good journalist needs to put in the effort. It is not easy to get information. But as a journalist, one should be selective in his materials.

Well — I'm an outsider to the end of my days!

Sometimes it pays to be a little wild.