David Sedaris

She's a great person.

And I have friends who are great people, but not great characters.

And it doesn't have anything to do with being dynamic.

Maybe it's a degree of confidence that makes somebody a good character.

What do you mean?

Like confident people.

Confident people always have my ear.

Even if I don't agree with them or even if I think their confidence is...

or that they're fooling themselves, right?

It doesn't matter.

It gets me to sit up straight and it gets me to listen.

And I think I'm probably not alone in that.

You can kind of hypnotize.

A confident person can hypnotize the people around him or at least can get them to listen, you know?

And I love the combination of somebody who's just a horrible person but just brimming with confidence and just certain that they're right in all situations.

I mean, my dad was like that.

Never, never, ever showed any doubt in regard to anything.

And, you know, I didn't agree with him, and I didn't want to be him, but it made him a good character.

Was the Pope a good character?

Speaking of someone in power who you've listened to speak?