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I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.