“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”
“Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.”
“What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”
“It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.”
“Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.”