Wells Quotes by David Sedaris

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

— David Sedaris

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could…

— David Sedaris

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name…

— David Sedaris

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

— David Sedaris

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the…

— David Sedaris

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something.…

— David Sedaris

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after…

— David Sedaris

I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good…

— David Sedaris

I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I…

— David Sedaris

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about.…

— David Sedaris

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in…

— David Sedaris

I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part…

— David Sedaris

Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted,…

— David Sedaris

It's funny how certain objects convey a message - my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever…

— David Sedaris