Davy Rothbart Quotes

#1. Japanese used to have a color word, ao, that spanned both green and blue.

Guy Deutscher

#2. Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

#3. 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.

Davy Rothbart

#4. I started playing that game I play when I'm feeling lonely, the one where I review all of my prior relationships, marveling that so many sweet, smart, pretty girls have come into my life and that I've found a way to fuck things up with every one of them.

Davy Rothbart

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

Davy Rothbart

#6. The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

Eric Gurney

#7. Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Gregory David Roberts

#8. You think I had a choice?" Bishop demands. "What choice? I'm not like your father or Callie, Ivy. I was never going to just let you go. I love you. There was never any choice.

Amy Engel

#9. My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Jackson Browne

#10. That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

Davy Rothbart

#11. I thought you dumped him."

"Oh, I did. But not because I wanted to. I was just accepting the inevitable. He fell out of love with me, but you can't dump the weepy rape victim. So I did it for him.

Sarina Bowen

#12. I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [ ... ]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had 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.

Davy Rothbart

#13. If you want to get drunk, get drunk with love.

Debasish Mridha

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

Davy Rothbart

#15. Marry her right away. Tomorrow, if you want. You don't know how much time you get with someone, so you might as well start right away.

Davy Rothbart

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

Davy Rothbart

#17. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#18. 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.

Davy Rothbart

#19. I hate Billings, Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck

Joan Rivers

#20. If you wake up in some field during a storm with an iron bar glued to your hand, obviously someone wants you to be a lightning rod.

Ryan Harding

#21. Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.

Tsai Ing-wen

#22. What brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

Paul Levine

#23. My dashed hopes putt-putted bravely to life once more, like a bug that gets stomped on but keeps pulling itself across the floor.

Davy Rothbart

#24. 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.

Davy Rothbart

#25. 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.

Davy Rothbart

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

Davy Rothbart

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

Davy Rothbart

#28. 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.

Davy Rothbart