“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.”
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“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s

Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96

“Adults should strive to be more like children.”
Speaking at Women's march in Los Angeles (21 January 2017).