David Sedaris Quotes

When you're by yourself you have to sort out everything like the shopping and looking after the house.

I don't have to make my own bed.

The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.

When you do it yourself, you feel better.

Even in 'Khatron,' I used to wash my own clothes.

I cook and do my own laundry.

I love being able to play myself if I fancy, and take myself off as soon as I've had enough.

When I am in India, I feel pampered. However, when I am In Georgia, I am on my own, as I have to cook and do things all by myself. However, that gives me an independent feeling.

I do whatever appeals to me. I have always made my own choices.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Truth is, I'm stronger on my own.

That year of modeling, I grew up a lot - I was alone in New York and just grinding and making it work, and I feel it kind of prepared me for the responsibilities of being an actor alone in L.A. and taking care of yourself.