“Never Explain Anything”
“You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.”
“Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”
“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they were worthy of information and discussion.”