David Sedaris

I want to be better at everything.

And the only way to get better at everything is to work harder.

That's what I tell myself.

I say that to myself umpteen times a day.

Work harder.

Like you're not working hard enough.

But that's the promise, right?

That you can be better.

That you can write better.

That you can understand better.

That you can speak a language better.

That you can...

be a better person but it's not going to happen by accident you have to work at it and so that's what puts me at my desk and that's what gets me out of bed every day is just thinking because I have proof like if I look back at my first book

And it's the best I could do with the time, right?

But you couldn't pay me to read that thing now, right?

And the only way I got better was by working.

So if I could get that much better in this amount of time, if I just look at the time that I have left to live, I can get a lot better at everything between now and then.

David Sedaris, thank you for all the time.

That was so nice of you to have me on.

I really appreciate it.