You would think that after so many children have been shot running around the streets with real guns, that they wouldn't make things like this anymore,

A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.