The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves.
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 SedarisHe looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.
David SedarisI started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
David SedarisI'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons that I've never written about sex. Because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like Joan Didion, but writing like Joan Didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. So I would write in my diary, "I met J. and we had sex five times last night." But I would never write about what we did.
David Sedaris