Quotes About Insight

I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

I would love to go to the Last Supper and become a fly on the wall to hear what was said and see what went on.

I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people with breaking down the walls.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

This proving of such and such I found to be almost like cheating. You start somewhere, and then you go into a dark tunnel, and then you come out at another place. You find that you have proved what you wanted to prove, but in the tunnel, you don't see anything.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.