“Only children believe they're capable of everything.”

“I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling… and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ […] the child isRight from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?”

“… there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them…”

“In life, only those who are capable of upsetting everything, at any moment, advance powerfully.”

“Children are capable of such open rudeness.”

“So few people know what they're capable of.”

“No, because it's not like they're the only songs we have. They're like children; you shouldn't really have a favourite. Unless one of your kids develops into a pervert.”

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”

“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”