Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room. It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed...

So what if that one resident is shy? Do shy people not count as citizens? Do introverts not pay taxes?” You tried to claim that you were talking about population size and classifications on categories—nomenclature,...

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my...

I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

I’m actually much more shy and self-conscious than people’s perception of me.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn’t make him talk.

I’m a private person. I’m shy about people knowing things.

I’m actually introverted and shy.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.