Samoa Joe Quotes

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

I find myself fascinating.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

I write a lot about myself.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Everything I write is about me.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.