“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
“You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!”
“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.”
“By high school, some girls may be mature enough to be sexually active, but my experience is that the more mature and healthy girls avoid sex.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?”