If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility….

The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaph….

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex..

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent..

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or he….

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child..

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity..

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child..

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they ca….

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie..

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows val….

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time..

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not..

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up..

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor..

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all huma….

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear..

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which ….

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world wh….

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult..

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state..