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

“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.”

“Spoon Feeding is only good for children not for adults. Let them think for themselves and don't baby them. They are just plain lazy.”

“Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.”

“I’m always amazed when adults say that children “just did that to get attention”. Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?”

“They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.”