We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

There's the parent you want and the parent you have.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school

You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!