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 . ↗

— Spalding Gray

#city #coast #europe #i #island

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#desire #despair #diary #longing #monologue

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#i think #new #new york #rest #soup

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. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#because #better #good #hours #me

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. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#because #committed #convinced #grave #i

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#good #i #i can #laugh #like

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#continues #crime #explode #face #fact

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#baby #having #held #i #keep

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#chaos #contingent #everything