Fernando Torres Quotes

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

I've never been a confessional writer.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

My life is an open pamphlet.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.