“Grown ups are certainly very strange.”
“So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.”
“It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.”
“That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.”
“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
“All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.”