“But some children have clearer vision than adults.”

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

“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”

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

“This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.”

“Childhood may be defined as the age of play; therefore some children are never young, and some adults are never old.”

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

“In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults.”

“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.”

“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.”