Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because its complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and hes able to keep processing that as well. – V. S. Naipaul
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart. – Edwin Booth
The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820
