In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who … - Davy Rothbart

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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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