Quotes About Introspection

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

I'm not someone who will make a decision in haste and let loneliness decide the wrong partner for me.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

It's always better to leave the party early.

I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.

I'm not much of a party girl.

I definitely used to be a party girl.

I was never really into partying.

I don't go out partying at all.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don't ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.

I don't go out partying.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.