“I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt … that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.”

— Norman Mailer

His reaction to a publisher's rejection of The Deer Park because of six "salacious lines" he would not remove, as quoted in The New York Times (21 July 1985)

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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007

Marilyn French (1929–2009) Novelist, critic

“When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“It’s good to be 18. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

Ezra Miller (1992) American actor

Interview, Interview Magazine, 2010 http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/ezra-miller/#_

“I am a Widow's Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed”

Ned Kelly (1855–1880) Australian bushranger

Jerilderie Letter (1879)
Context: Neglect this and abide by the consequences, which shall be worse than the rust in the wheat of Victoria or the druth of a dry season to the grasshoppers in New South Wales I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning, but I am a Widow's Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

“There’s something
so great about this,” she whispers.
About what?” I whisper back.

About this,” she whispers.
About being outlaws.
It’s just you and me—against the world.”

Sonya Sones (1950) American writer