Davy Rothbart
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.Collection: Keys
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.Collection: Taken
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.Collection: Zines
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.Collection: Focus
Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.Collection: Stories
My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Advice
I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.Collection: Advice
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.Collection: Writing
On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Real
I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.Collection: Trying