Teju Cole Quotes

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

Those who talk to themselves are the truest actors.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.