My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.