Spalding Gray

“I knew that I was a crazy person but I did not know that I was a crazy person.”

“I'm a man who has an infinite capacity for boring himself.”

“For me, the monologue is a way of exploring the world.”

“I understood that I was a theatrical person, I was a theatrical person.”

“A perfect moment is a moment of total absorption.”

“I'm obsessed with the idea of memory and the way it shapes our lives.”

“To not tell a story is to be a ghost.”

“I think of my work as a kind of public therapy.”

“My life is a creative act--like a painting or a concerto.”

“I think we're all looking for a narrative to make sense of our lives.”

“I was looking for a moment of grace.”

“The only real sin is to be unconscious.”