Hugh Prather Quotes

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

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.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

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.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

I think only Kanye can truly understand Kanye.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I find myself fascinating.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

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.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Everything I write is about me.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

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

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.