Larry Wall Quotes

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

It is a very wise rule … to acquire early a correct notion of your own peculiar constitution of mind, and to become well acquainted with … your idiosyncrasy

I'm not Rebus. We're not the same. I don't even think he'd like me if we met. He'd think I was a wishy-washy liberal.

Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.

You can't escape your face.

Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that.

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.

I think the fact that I am gay is about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?

It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

I think as a person, I have a whole bunch of different sides to me.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.