Zitat des Tages von Spalding Gray:
I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
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.
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.
When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.
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.
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 .
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 think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
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.
If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.