“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.””— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“A guy picking up his kids at school sees another kid and says loudly "god, what an ugly kid!" The person standing next to him says "he's my son..." The guy, pretty embarassed, replies "oh man, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were his father" "I'm his mom..."”— leducdeguise, reddit.com
“You might look at me and say, Hey, there's a happy kid; a little hyper, a little rambunctious, but happy all the same. And so there I was, humming along, when suddenly Dorothy would pop up out of the blue, snatch me up, and take me along on one of her lost weekends.”— Etta James, amazon.com