Tommy Hilfiger Quotes

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'