If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

- 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

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live …

- Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

- Spalding Gray

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

- Spalding Gray

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

- Spalding Gray

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

- Spalding Gray

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

- Spalding Gray

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

- Spalding Gray