David Sedaris

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings."

- David Sedaris

"I guess in my diary I’m not afraid to be boring. It’s not my job to entertain anyone in my diary."

- David Sedaris

"A good book should take you out of yourself and then stuff you back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

- David Sedaris

"A good book should take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

- David Sedaris

"You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed"

- David Sedaris

"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

- David Sedaris

"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."

- David Sedaris

"I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed."

- David Sedaris

"That’s the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it, not at your desk, but beyond it, out in the world, where it’s so beautiful, and complex, and painful, that sometimes, you just need to sit down and write about it."

- David Sedaris

"I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking."

- David Sedaris

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings."

- David Sedaris

"Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you6re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone6s feelings"

- David Sedaris

"You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed."

- David Sedaris

"I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like."

- David Sedaris