E. L. Doctorow Quotes

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.