Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“True art was based upon despair, and the important thing was to make yourself and those around you as miserable as possible.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It was the artist’s duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience’s job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it. I’ve become like… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick… — David Sedaris Copy Share
“never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk… — David Sedaris Copy Share
“It was a father, one hand resting teapot-style on his hip, and the other - what would be the spout - formed into a… — David Sedaris Copy Share
“A Japanese woman we’d met in Paris came to the apartment yesterday and spent several hours explaining our appliances. The microwave, the water kettle,… — David Sedaris Copy Share
One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here… — David Sedaris Copy Share
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. — David Sedaris Copy Share
“You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?” — David Sedaris Copy Share
“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.” — David Sedaris Copy Share
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. — David Sedaris Copy Share
“You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you… — David Sedaris Copy Share
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work… — David Sedaris Copy Share
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a… — David Sedaris Copy Share
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression:… — David Sedaris Copy Share
I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot… — David Sedaris Copy Share
