Spalding Gray Quotes

"The greatest thing that happens to me when I'm skiing is the harmony. The only time I was ever present in my body before was in sex, performing, drugs and with the sea. Skiing became the new and healthy way of being present - although I don't know if it's healthy, I could sever my spinal cord."
-Spalding Gray

"I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup."
-Spalding Gray

"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."
-Spalding Gray

"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."
-Spalding Gray

"Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos."
-Spalding Gray

"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 ."
-Spalding Gray

"[NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land."
-Spalding Gray

"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."
-Spalding Gray