Larry McMurtry Quotes

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I wouldn't want anything to do with me.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I'm doing that, I'm kicking myself mentally.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

I just think too much sometimes.

As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.