“Killing children or adults -- equally horrible.”
“Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?”
“This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.”
“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”
“In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”