David Sedaris Quotes

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

It's part of my ritual to watch a new film every day, no matter what. It's important to me.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

I'm not a big politics guy.

Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know?

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.