A Beginner's Guide to Paradise Quotes

“In his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, Spalding Gray says we travel in search of “the perfect moment,” and once attained, we can return home in peace until, in need of another such moment, we head out again.”
― Alex Sheshunoff, A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: A True Story for Dreamers, Drifters, and Other Fugitives from the Ordinary

“Midlife crises are the best-funded stage of rebellion, because, finally, the rebel himself can lavish the amount of money he feels befits the depth of his self-pity.”
― Alex Sheshunoff, A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: A True Story for Dreamers, Drifters, and Other Fugitives from the Ordinary

“I pulled out my ticket sleeve. Across the back, I scribbled Life Lesson four: “If you ever want to give it all up to live under a palm tree and read, don’t do it. It’s hot, full of flies, and without a single good place to sit down.”
― Alex Sheshunoff, A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: A True Story for Dreamers, Drifters, and Other Fugitives from the Ordinary