T. C. Boyle Quotes

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 even know what my voice is to this day.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I know what my identity is.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

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

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.