Baron Vaughn Quotes

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

I was a reflective child.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.