At a conference last week in Hamburg, Karel Rose quoted Adam Phillips on how infants are born in love with the world. Remember the famous line from “The Breakfast Club”? “When you grow up . . . your heart dies.”

Molly Ringwald writes about her relationship with John Hughes and how he could not bear leaving the Neverland of the world he created in his films.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/opinio…

None of the films that he made subsequently had the same kind of personal feeling to me. They were funny, yes, wildly successful, to be sure, but I recognized very little of the John I knew in them, of his youthful, urgent, unmistakable vulnerability. It was like his heart had closed, or at least was no longer open for public view. A darker spin can be gleaned from the words John put into the mouth of Allison in “The Breakfast Club”: “When you grow up … your heart dies.”