Top 12 Quotes by 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.

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

Keys, One Direction, Way

Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.195, Macmillan

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.

Davy Rothbart

Taken, Ends, Plans

Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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

Zines, People, Want

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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

Focus, Trying, Being There

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

Davy Rothbart

Stories, Mail, Encounters

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

Davy Rothbart

Years, Parent, Married

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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

Advice, Asking, Email

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

Davy Rothbart

Advice, Given

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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

Writing, School, Night

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

Davy Rothbart

Writing, Way, Deadline

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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

Real, Grandma, Years

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