Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. – Erik H. Erikson

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974

Think what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. – Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, commonly mi