Peter Marino Quotes

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

I find myself fascinating.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Everything I write is about me.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything on his powers of detachment, on de-narcissizing himself… Freud… studied his own dreams not because he was a “narcissist,” but because he was a student of dreams. And whose were at once the least and most accessible of dreams, if not his own?

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

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