I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.