I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

... in due time she would fill like a container with substances and experiences... . she would become mature, that ideal condition envisaged as the justification of all previous experience, an apex of achievement, inevitable and peculiar to her. This apex is how we see things; it is a biological summit we see: growth, the achievement on the top of the curve of her existence, then a falling away towards death.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.