Jeff Kinney Quotes

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

I'm not that interested in people.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

I don't like talking about myself. I find it a lot easier talking about other people.

See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy. The rest of the world means nothing to me. The rest of the world can rot.' Am I like that too?' You? No way.' There's a slight gap in his words. 'And that's your problem. You care about everything.' He's right. I do.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are

I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.