When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Brian Aldiss, (Aug 18 1925-2017), English science-fiction writer; He was a Hugo-winning Science Fiction writer who wrote Moreau's Other Island, 1980; Greybeard, 1964, and the Helleconia series.