Spalding Gray Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.”

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

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

“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.”

“I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.”

“I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.”

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