“So many adults are just very large children who were never seen and heard and felt and understood and allowed and enabled to be.”

“Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.”

“Children defer to adults because they’re older, bigger and stronger. But it’s also because children believe that adults have reasons for what they do. There was nothing magical about the Pied Piper of Hamelin’s flute. The Piper acted like he knew where he was going and the children followed him into the dark mountains where they were never seen again.”

“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

“Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something…. My theory is a children's book… can be just for fun.”

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

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

“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”

“God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.”

“Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again.”