“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.”

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”

“Adults should strive to be more like children.”

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”