Quotes About Reflection

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.

I have come to terms with all the complications of my life.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

I'm not great at taking compliments because I always find the thing I could do better.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

I think it's amazing when technology is used in a smart way, but the responsibility that comes with it... I think there's a lot of technology that we're using that we haven't thought through. It's a bit scary to put all your trust in technology and to think that that's what going to save us. We're going to have to make some compromises.

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

Concentrating on yourself all day is not healthy.

That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check.