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Spalding Gray Quotes

«I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .»
Author: Spalding Gray
«I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«The greatest thing that happens to me when I'm skiing is the harmony. The only time I was ever present in my body before was in sex, performing, drugs and with the sea. Skiing became the new and healthy way of being present - although I don't know if it's healthy, I could sever my spinal cord.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«everything is contingent, and there is also chaos»
«I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.»
Author: Spalding Gray
«[NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.»
Author: Spalding Gray