Quotes About Introspection

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

I'll never put my memoirs in print.

I think Roland read 'Primal Scream' first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to 'The Graduate' days. We both got heavily into and it offered a lot of questions about how screwed up our home life was.

I'm very driven, and I always have been, but when do you prioritize self-care? It's so important because even to attain success, you must take time to slow down and get to know yourself first.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.