At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.

But I don’t want to be a vampire drone.’ Sophronia winced. ‘They’ll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage – whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state’s or the society’s.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

I know kids cuss…I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.

Being an adult is basically just Googling how to do stuff and then pretending you knew it all along.

I used to think being an adult meant having it all figured out, but it turns out we’re all just guessing.

I’m a little fatigued of adults saying we’ve got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don’t know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.