Michel Houellebecq et Chien (Photo Credit: "Le Chien des Années 2000"; Le Petit Bulletin)

Michel Houellebecq on Children & Adults:

“Few adults, very few, are aware to what extent children watch their parents, constantly on the lookout for some sign of how they should approach the world; how sharp and vibrant their intelligence is in the years leading up to the disaster of puberty, how quick to summarize, to draw broad conclusions.  Very few adults realize that every child, naturally, instinctively, is a philosopher.”

– From a New York Times book review of Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World by Dwight Garner