Quotes About Insight

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear…. What is going on in these pictures in my mind?

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.

careful aperçus about tennis bums and failed fashion models and Greek shipping heiresses, one of whom taught me a significant lesson (a lesson I could have learned from F. Scott Fitzgerald, but perhaps we all must meet the very rich for ourselves) by asking, when I arrived to interview her in her orchid-filled sitting room on the second day of a paralyzing New York blizzard, whether it was snowing outside.

We all have our own trips and it is a nice drive.

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

we live blindly. We repeat the same mistakes by rote until an emotional punch to the gut brings us up short. ...Sometimes it requires intense pain before we can take a good hard look at ourselves, before we ask the important questions. ... Who am I? What is important? What do I believe? What do I want?

She understood very well that when you took a good look under a clear, hard light, the world was a fucked-up hellhole. Most people knew this, she'd known this, but nobody wanted to think about it all the time. It didn't pay to forget for too long.

Sagittarians rarely talk about their feelings—they talk about what they think about their feelings.

Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do!

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

Knowledge is currency here....

No one sees clearly during a war. History gives perspective

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss.