Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

I am not very introspective.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I'm an introspective dude.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.