Quotes About Introspection

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

I have faced up to what I am.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

I guess I happen to have one of those faces that just says everything I'm thinking. I guess it's a gift, but I see it as a potential liability. It keeps me honest.

I want to explore myself in every facet.

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

It doesn't matter who I'm facing. I'm concentrating on myself.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.