“Money could be found, worked at, saved. But the spirit, when gone, was gone forever.”

“You owe me.""What do I owe you? All the things I gave you. How I took care of you. Money, information...pleasure. I denied you nothing. If I could give it to you, I did.""You gave me things that cost you nothing. It certainly didn't seem to be a hardship to fuck me.”

“Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.”

“I said to the social worker "Would you stop me from having a child of my own?" Of course, they wouldn't have been able to do that. I could well have had a child of my own, and there would be nothing they could have done about that. Anybody can have their own child. Doesn't matter if they are drug abusers or prostitutes or paedophiles, but when you want to adopt they put you through hoops, like infertility makes you less capable of being a parent.”

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.”

“The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.”

“Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.”