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Children are not a burden.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.