Jay Chiat Quotes

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I'm naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I'm uncomfortable in a general sense.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

[Referring to LBJ:] ... one of the few politicians with whom I found it uncomfortable to be in the same room.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

I'm not sure if I'd call myself an extrovert. I think I'm a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it's one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I'm not that nice all the time.

I am a living contradiction.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.