Dan Kiley – The Peter Pan Syndrome; Men who have never grown up

''It’s not too late and people in the environment of the ‘victim’ are able to help him.''

''The curtain rises to show Peter a very Napoleon on his ship. It must not rise again lest we see him on the poop in Hook’s hat and cigars, and with a small iron claw’’.

''They can sing and dance while they steal your life’s treasures’’

''The children on this boat are about to walk the plank. Split my infinitives but this is my hour of triumph! And yet some disky spirit compels me now to make my dying speech, lest when dying there may be no time for it. All mortals envy me, yet better perhaps for Hook to have had less ambition! No little children love me. I am told they play at Peter Pan, and that the strongest always choses to be Peter. They would rather be a Twin than Hook; they force the baby to be Hook. The baby! That is where the canker gnaws.’’

''I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. No one is going to catch me, lady, and make me a man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun’’.

''I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg’’

''Wendy: ran away, why? Peter: because I heard Father and Mother talking of what I was to be when I became a man. I want always to be a little boy and have fun.’’