A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
Phyllis McGinleyScratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
Phyllis McGinleyChildren from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.
Phyllis McGinley