Quote of the Day

‘I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.’

• Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fulghum came to prominence in the United States when his first collection of writings, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), stayed on The New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years. The collection of essays is subtitled "Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things". A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Kindergarten has been published – updating and revising the original text, with the addition of twenty-five new stories. There are currently more than 17 million copies of his books in print, published in 27 languages in 103 countries.