She even coached a young Sedaris on how to tweak his anecdotes to make them funnier.

她甚至还指导过小赛达里斯如何添油加醋将轶事写得更有趣。

Sedaris admits that he regrets that he never confronted his mother about her alcoholism.

塞达里斯承认，他很后悔自己没有就母亲的酗酒问题和她当面对质。

The longest Sedaris book signing lasted over 10 hours.

要知道，赛达里斯最长的签售会持续了足足10个多小时。

Sedaris says he doesn't regret anything he's ever written. But he does dislike his early work.

塞达里斯表示，他不后悔自己写下的每一件事。但他并不喜欢自己早期的作品。

Sedaris ignored her, turned to a nearby security guard and asked him to shut the door.

塞达里斯没有理她，还转向附近的一名保安，让他把门关上了。

" Is your father still alive? " Sedaris asks the young clerk.

“令尊还健在吗？”塞达里斯向年轻的店员问道。

It's just the kind of playfully bizarre decoration that Sedaris loves.

塞达里斯偏偏就喜欢这种充满趣味又颇为奇异的装饰。

Sedaris' body is slowly deteriorating, which perhaps has led to his fanatical obsession with his Fitbit.

赛达里斯的身体已经开始走下坡路，或许，这就是他疯狂痴迷于他的Fitbit健身手环的原因。

Sedaris is the first to admit that he easily becomes consumed by routines.

赛达里斯也是第一个承认自己容易墨守成规的人。

Sedaris has previously written about his mother in reverent tones: her six children vied for her attention, and she held court at the dinner table every night.

在那之前，赛达里斯也曾用虔诚的语气描述过他的母亲：六个孩子个个都想得到她的关注，每天晚上她都是饭桌上的焦点。

Sedaris happily took her up on the offer, and in the wee hours of the morning he drove with her to a clinic for the surgery.

塞达里斯欣然接受了她的提议，凌晨时分，他就开车带她去了一家诊所做手术。

When Sedaris and I meet in the late morning, he has already logged almost 9,000 of the recommended 10,000 steps for the day.

当天，我和他是临近中午时分会的面，那时他就已经走完近9000步了，他的每日推荐步数才1万步。

Sedaris has led me to 45R, a Japanese boutique he first shopped at in Tokyo before discovering a stateside outpost here on Mercer Street in New York City.

塞达里斯带我去了45R，这是他最初在东京发现的一家日本时装店，后来发现纽约美世街就有一家分店。

Sedaris has mined his past for eight memoirs' worth of material, including a collection of old diary entries published last year under the title Theft by Finding.

他的过去足够他挖掘出写八本回忆录所需的材料，其中，有一些旧时的日记条目已经在去年整理成册，以“拾遗不报”为名付梓出版。

When Sedaris, 61, shares intimate details of his life, he forges a bond with millions of readers and audience members, including now this clerk who busies himself finding a flattering shirt.

通过分享自己私密的生活细节，已经61岁的塞达里斯同数以百万计的读者和观众，包括这位正忙着帮他找一件讨巧的衬衫的店员，有了特殊的纽带。

Now he has channeled his self-described obsessive-compulsive disorder into a green, if dangerous, project: as we walk alongside busy Houston Street, Sedaris spots a trash bag filled with Styrofoam tumbling into the road.

现在，他将被他自己称之为强迫症的习惯变成了一个环保，虽然也有些危险的项目：我们沿着熙熙攘攘的休斯敦大街散步时，赛达里斯发现一个装满泡沫塑料的垃圾袋飘到了马路上。

In his early essay collections, Sedaris wrote about the homophobic speech therapy he was forced to endure as a child, his experimentation with drugs and his stint working as a Santaland elf at Macy's.

在早期的随笔集中，他就写到了自己小时候被迫接受的恐同语言治疗，他做过的毒品实验以及在梅西百货兼职，扮演圣诞精灵的时光。

He has found some perks: he spent his 20s broke but now lives in the English countryside with his boyfriend Hugh, in a house with a guest room, the kind Sedaris fantasized about as a younger man.

20多岁时他还身无分文，但现在和男友休住在英国乡下，一栋带有客房的房子，还是他年轻时幻想拥有的那种客房。

A week before we spoke, a woman in Calgary, Alberta, claimed that her boyfriend was planning to get a tattoo of a corn dog on his face, which might make for a good anecdote in an essay if Sedaris could confirm it was true.

就在本次访谈的一周前，阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里就有一名女子声称，她的男友打算在脸上纹一个热狗，倘若塞达里斯能证实此言非虚的话，或许能写成一个不错的小故事。