Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?” he asked.

“Not if I can avoid it, no.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

A man is merely a boy, who upon entering a dark room, does not close his eyes, but instead closes his mind. His glare into nothingness is as illuminating as his potential to advance mankind.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.