Janet Jackson Quotes

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and worms. Somehow I thought that it was a magical world of insects, and I wanted to go there. It was the same impulse as 'Pikmin' - I wanted to go into that world.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.