Rufus Wainwright Quotes

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

My mind is always going.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

People think I'm laid back, but there's a lot going on in my head.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

It is amazing how many thoughts can race through your head in a minute.

Most of my work is in my mind.

I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.