David Sedaris Quotes

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

I'd say my biggest vice is caffeine, tea or coffee.

I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.

Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning.

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that I'm naturally amped up. But when I quit I was worried that I would never write again. It was like anyone who's kicked a habit. I was in a blanket shivering, trying to kick the horse.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.