When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

I can take care of myself, but I can’t take care of myself and a child. I’ve decided to give myself up for adoption.


A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.