I Miss my Childhood

 When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."—Pablo Picasso

And these children
that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware
of what they're going through."—David Bow

"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
— Kate DiCamillo

"It's not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain."—German proverb