Quotes from David Sedaris

In the end I decided the word was more about him than it was about me. But isn't it often that way?

If you happen to live there, it's always refreshing to view Manhattan from afar. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

I don't have email.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between sh.. and syphilis in the dictionary.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.