: When you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

-Albee, Edward Franklin, III
JERRY1958  On pornographic playing cards. The Zoo Story.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw likethe ox. And thesucking child shall playonthehole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L, as the waters cover the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah11:6^9.

Here's looking at you, kid.

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).

To be a successful father, there's oneabsoluterule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
Quoted in  A E Hotchner Papa Hemingway (1966), pt.2, ch.5.