A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away...

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.