“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”
“A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.”
“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”
“Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.”
“I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.”
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.”