Quotes About Introspection

Frankly, there is not much demand from home and I don't socialise much - no partying, get-togethers and very rare wedding appearances.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things.

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

In 'Bigg Boss Telugu,' I had to be myself, not Jai. So, every weekend, when I went to the television show, it helped me to get back to my real self.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

I've always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.

I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.