Theophilus London Quotes

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

I am always writing to myself.

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

I've always lived in my head, which is very easy to do when you live and work in a city.

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

I'm grateful for my own head and for all the weird things in it.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.