Mendal W. Johnson > Quotes

“Before colonels commanded or astronauts flew, they were nearly forty! They told you all these things you could be, but the truth of it was that when you wanted it you couldn’t have it, and when you got it, you were old and boring like everybody else. It quenched ambition”
― Mendal W. Johnson, Let's Go Play at the Adams'

“What would any person do given entire power over another person ?”
― Mendal W. Johnson, Let's Go Play at the Adams'

“Beneath the glib little caricatures she had drawn of the children, they were people—learn that! They were organized; they could plan; they could keep their own counsel; they could execute; and now it appeared that they could keep their composure once commitment had been made.”
― Mendal W. Johnson, Let's Go Play at the Adams'

“Each person expects to grow up. Ascension to power is a given part of existence. Usually, however, it lies distantly ahead—we shall have power when we have the years, the means and experience, for power—and meanwhile, we shall coast along being simply what we are and no more. Now, of course, all of this was capsized. They had done the unbelievable thing, they had captured a grown-up.”
― Mendal W. Johnson, Let's Go Play at the Adams'