Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.