O. J. Simpson Quotes

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

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

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

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

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

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

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.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

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

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

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.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.