"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

"Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
— George Carlin

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
— Mark Twain

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."
— Margaret Mead

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
— Margaret Mead

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
— Norman Douglas

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

""You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time they go around—and why his parents will always wave back.”
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— William D. Tammeus

"Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever."
— Tibor Kalman

"When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love."
— Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods)

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson