# Quote — David Sedaris, Theft by Finding

> Harry Rowohlt, the fellow who translated my book into German and is reading with me on my tour, told me that when someone on the bus or at a nearby table in a restaurant talks on a cell phone, he likes to lean over and shout, "Come back to bed, I'm freezing."

- Author: [David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md)
- Book: [Theft by Finding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding.md)
- Page: 391
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Sedaris#Theft_by_Finding:_Diaries,_Volume_1_(1977-2002)_(2017)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/harry-rowohlt-the

## More from this book

> The inevitable finally happened, just as I knew it would.

p. 387 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/the-inevitable-finally.md)

> Someone stopped Mitch on the street last night and said, "I need another seventy-five cents so I can buy a cheeseburger. How about helping me?"
>
> Mitch said, "Get it without the cheese," and continued walking.

p. 317 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/someone-stopped-mitch.md)

> Later I went to the design school and saw Kumar and Melamid, the Soviet dissident artists, who are funny. I sold them my soul for $1.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/later-i-went.md)