Paranoia,” Sam muttered. “You’re going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you’re talking to yourself.

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

Teaching … particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they’re all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you’re still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.