That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up... they forget.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.