“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”

From "The deep end", interview by Nick Kent, The Face (March 1990).
In interviews etc., About love

Sachin cannot play the helicopter shot like Dhoni, hit sixes like Sehwag, play an innings like Dravid or be a captain like Ganguly. But no one can be as good as him in what he does. http://www.storypick.com/quotes-by-tendulkar/

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Source: My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 18, Hope

Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010
Context: I'm wondering how the new crop of teens and twentysomethings became so afraid of emotion and the expression thereof.* Did their parents teach them? Did they learn it somewhere else? Is this a spontaneous cultural phenomenon? Are they afraid of appearing weak? Is this capitalism streamlining the human psyche to be more useful by eliminating anything that might hamper productivity? Is it a sort of conformism? I don't know, but I could go the rest of my life and never again hear anyone whine about someone else being "emo," and it would be a Very Good Thing.

Source: Abhorsen