It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes read more

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the read more

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.