Davy Rothbart Quotations

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

I have a black Grandma and white Grandma. My white Grandma lives in Fort Lauderdale, paints, and teaches bridge. She's wonderful. My black Grandma, equally wonderful, is my neighbor across the street, Bobbie, who's always insisted that I call her Grandma, and honestly, over the years she's become a real Grandma to me.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

It was so angry, yet so hopeful and in love, and it wasn't even his car. It was mine, ... I started sharing it with people and wished I could share it with more people.

It was really spooky. I don't know if that says something about Richmond greater as a whole, ... I have to give Richmond props for being the home to the scariest homemade haunted house I've ever been to.

I'm excited to share these Lone Surfer stories because I've always wanted to be a writer since I was a little kid, ... It's a big thrill to see the book on the shelf and share these stories.