David Sedaris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Anytime you think of the future, you think, well, that's just going to be me but older, right?
I'm curious because you're someone who writes so vividly and beautifully about your own life.
You're about to turn 70.
Do you feel that you're looking back more than you have in previous books?
No, I don't think I look back in this book any more than I have in other ones.
I think I do it less, actually.
But, I mean, as you get older, you know, people start dying around you and you develop health problems and, you know, it's just kind of all part of the territory.
But I feel like...
I spent my youth well.
Like Hugh's mother, right?
Hugh's mother is 95 now.
And she and her husband got a divorce late in life because he was unfaithful.
But Hugh's mother...
will say, look at that girl there.
Oh, she's just so pretty.
And look at her.
She's got that little skirt on.
Her legs just look so good.
And, of course, her hair and her makeup.
Oh, she's just lovely.