I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hundred thousand delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.