Norton Juster Quotes

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I'm just a sweet little kid.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I have a childlike spirit.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

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

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.