The ANCIENT SUPERFICIAL IDEA of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the PATTERN required by SOCIETY.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep WRITING stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually WANT to READ about a 65 year old Harry STILL at Hogwarts playing BINGO with Ron and Hermione.

Most PEOPLE who came here came for ECONOMIC reasons or sometimes for RELIGIOUS or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by CHOICE as an adult.

The BOND between a PARENT and child is the PRIMARY bond, the foundation for the REST of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning BABIES, my skin's gone totally bonkers. I didn't EVEN KNOW about dermatologists until I had weaned my first BABY, and my skin was so DAMAGED. It was just beyond. And then, I realized, there's a whole doctor who can help you with this.

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the REASON I'm so ambitious. I felt LIKE I wasn't APPRECIATED as a child so I wanted to prove my WORTH as an ADULT, as an actor.

I was born with an adult HEAD and a tiny BODY. Like a 'Peanuts' CHARACTER.

I had NIGHTMARES as a KID. As an ADULT, I have very prosaic DREAMS.

The RARE person is still INTERESTED in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly BRIGHT to keep learning and changing attitudes as you GET older.

Once you have DONE with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and REALLY I have FELT that I should have been an adult SINCE I was aged about five.