“Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together to support basically a dark vision that the world is kind of a dump. And we all have to find our ways of surviving in it and of making it a better place. It's a world where we don't have much help, other than what we bring to the table. It's a world in which brotherly love counts more than anything else.” WorldKindPhilosophyCharacterHelpingTogetherDarkVisionSupportHelping OthersWorking TogetherSurvivingBrotherlyBrotherly Love Author:David Small
“There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. Kids are kids; they're innocents, they really are. For a long time, no matter what they see, no matter what they're exposed to, they can't get it until they have developed enough.” WorldBelieveLongEnoughCharacterKidsFilmLiteratureHypocrisy Author:David Small
“Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.” WorldLooksMaySpeakUnderstandingSimpleTalkingLeaderAchievePlanetsThousandMessagesUniversalFoolishNonsenseLooking GoodTalking Nonsense Author:David Small
