Les Wexner Quotes

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

More than ever, I had to analyze my mental state over the past couple of years because of all the things that happened since the last album came out. Just being surrounded by lots of noise - good and bad - and still being able to try to hold onto some kind of identity for myself.