As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.