“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.”
“Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.”
“Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?”
“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”