# Quote — David Sedaris, Naked

> "You kids think you invented sex," my mother was fond of saying. But hadn't we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern? What produced in others a feeling of exhilaration left Jason and me with a mortifying sense of guilt. We fled the room as if, in our fumblings, we had uncapped some virus we still might escape if we ran fast enough. Had one of the counselors not caught me scaling the fence, I felt certain I could have made it back to Raleigh by morning, skittering across the surface of the ocean like one of those lizards often featured on television wildlife programs.

- Author: [David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md)
- Book: [Naked](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/naked.md)
- Page: 106
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Sedaris#Naked_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/naked/you-kids-think

## More from this book

> that's the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/naked/thats-the-beauty.md)

> My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks. I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

p. 251 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/naked/my-hands-tend.md)

> Because I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.

p. 222 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/naked/because-i-was.md)