I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.
I'm fascinated in the children within adults.
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.
Only grown-up men are scared of women.
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.
'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
As every successful parent learns, one way to encourage good behavior, from room-cleaning to tooth-brushing, is to make it fun. Not surprisingly, the same principle applies to adults. Adults like to have fun, too.
No matter how old you are, you always want your parents' approval.
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.
For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.
