#Childhood

"Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God."

"Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul."

"I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor."

"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."

"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."