What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Adults are only kids grown up
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
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