What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.
Ursula K. Le GuinThe question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
Ursula K. Le GuinA writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
Ursula K. Le Guin