Alan Dershowitz Quotes

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

No-one but me gets into my head.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

I like to keep my thoughts private.

As small as a world as large as alone.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

I'm a private person; I'm pretty to myself.

Before I went into comedy I was a loner, very much wrapped up in my own thoughts. But I always liked myself and the way I thought.

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.