Matt Haig Quotes

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I think when you play 'Psychonauts,' you are kind of playing inside of my head.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

You live your life between your ears.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

There is a lushness to how my mind works.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

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

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.