There wasn't much as a KID that INSPIRED me in what I did as an adult, but I was ALWAYS very interested in what motivates people, and in telling STORIES and building THINGS.

Part of the REASON for the UGLINESS of adults, in a CHILD's EYES, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their BEST when seen from below.

Government has the role of suiting PEOPLE for FREEDOM. People aren't MADE for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

I just GOT hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan AMERICA, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the FIRST things a YOUNG PERSON could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

Most CHILDREN TELL themselves STORIES in which they figure as POWERFUL figures, enjoying the PLEASURES not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was STILL GOING. And I began to realize when I BECAME a YOUNG adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the PLANET is in jeopardy.

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.