Quotes About Observation

Interesting how the self can be split into segments, orgasm and observation at the same time, the eye that watches the I. Neither is me, but both might be.

An eye can look out and it can look in. You should know that, you who look deeper than most.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

let his wife see the White House servants. It's true. Whenever she walked into a room, they had to go hide in a closet.

around and looked down the street. Then he looked at the empty spot where the car had been.

I see London, I see France I see Emily's underpants.

naked eye."*

At a tight table with a full complement of players, you need to assume that bets mean pretty much what they're supposed to mean.

Before you make a move, remember to take the whole position into account. In poker, your position includes everything you know: about your hand, about the players at the table, the chip counts, the situation - anything that can provide a clue about how the people you're facing will behave.

Taking it one step further, as Kabat-Zinn's voice murmured along, I realized I was not just noticing myself and my own thoughts and feelings and sensations but, in so doing, I was also observing myself observing myself. How bizarre: 3-back consciousness.

stared at her while Sally grumbled,

Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I see my love of country imbued with a responsibility to bear witness to its faults.

An artist on Esperance had once said to me, "Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat ... it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

Odadaki file i?aret eden, kral?n ç?plakl???n? gören ki?iydi. (Kurt Vonnegut)

She drew the main outline, keeping her fingers on the ferrule—the metal piece that clamped the bristles to the handle—and created a nose, mouth, and eyelids. For a moment, she wondered what color his eyes might be, then shoved aside the macabre thought. He had a strong, square jaw, his hair pushed back, looking sticky from the dirt that had been thrown directly onto his face.

She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life.

sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey

I open my eyes and see that Chase isn't looking at me anymore. He's staring at Jeremy because that song, or course, is coming from Jeremy's mouth. From his heart. His soul.

Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is a high-wire act. It's best not to look at the other circus performers but to attend to the wire.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.