“I grew up once, I decided never to do it again”
“I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.”
“People don't grow up. They just get taller.”
“But as I grew up, I began to understand that a savvy is just a know-how of a different sort.”
“Israel had always thought that growing up was simply something that happened to you: you grew taller, more dextrous, you acquired language, learned to feed yourself, developed intellectually, went to school, got a mortgage, had children, got fatter and tired and full of regrets, and that was it, you were grown up, you were an adult. There was more to it than that though, apparently - and it was something that women knew, and men did not.”