Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.
David SedarisSometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
David SedarisWriting gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
David SedarisI started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.
David Sedaris