Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.