“Amazingly, children are born knowing how to put every thought and feeling into story form. If they worry about being lost, they become the parents who search; if angry, they find a hot hippopotamus to impose his will upon the world. Even happiness has its plot and characters: 'Pretend I'm the baby and you only love me and you don't talk on the telephone.'”
   — Vivian Paley,
   The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter