Not everyone is like Sedaris

It sometimes helps to remind myself that not everyone is like me. not everyone writes things down in a notebook, and then transcribes them into a diary. Fewer still will take that diary, clean it up a bit, and read it in front of an audience.

David Sedaris, "In the Waiting Room," in Disquiet Please: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker (David Remnick & Henry Finder eds., New York: Random House, 2008), p. 513 (Kindle location 9044) (orig. pub. 2006)