# Quote — Nick Sagan, Idlewild

> Children know precious little, but that profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.

- Author: [Nick Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan.md)
- Book: [Idlewild](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Sagan#Idlewild_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild/children-know-precious

## More from this book

> ...and he died for what?--what thrill?--what cause?--tell me what treasure is worth the oxygen in a good man's brain?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild/and-he-died.md)

> 'Tell me who I am.'
>
> 'Halloween,' she said.
>
> I'd been rooting against it, but when the word came, it was almost a relief...Hell, I thought. A rose by any other name.
>
> 'And who is that?'
>
> 'You are my Lord Halloween, Prince of the Marshes, King of Kadath, High Sovereign of the Orange and Black.'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild/tell-me-who.md)

> Why did it have to be ? Why couldn't it have been hypermnesia? Or ? Or hypochondria?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-sagan/idlewild/why-did-it-have.md)