Sydney Sanborn

“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive”
― Joseph Campbell

“I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. "You know," I said, "I hear those words and automatically think Handicapped, or, Learning disabled. But aren't a lot of your students just assholes?"

"You got it," she said. Then she told me about a kid - last day of class - who wrote on the blackboard, "Mrs. J____ is a cock master."

I was impressed because I'd never heard that term before. She was impressed because the boy had spelled it correctly.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“Saying goodbye is a little like dying.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood