Davy Rothbart Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not. — Davy Rothbart

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

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

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. — Davy Rothbart

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

Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars
she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didn't know. — Davy Rothbart

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

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

It's appealing to imagine that if we can just get that one thing in our life to work out
[ ... ] that everything will be solved, absolved, good to go for good. I slipped into that way of thinking way too often, I admitted to Missy, even though I knew that sometimes in life all of a sudden there you were
standing with your Technics turntables just across the Canadian border, and you're not a new you, you're just you, but in Canada. — Davy Rothbart

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

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

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags. — Davy Rothbart