"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." - Anonymous
"People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children." - Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - Holden Caulfield (J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye)
"The Universe has an incredibly sadistic sense of humor. And I, for one, enjoy watching the poor fools who just don't get the joke." - Lynn Marshall"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded." - William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage