“When I grow up next year my life will be easy." Vanity”

“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.”

“The moment isn't a piece of time; it's a question. The moment comes when you look up and see your life stretching out for seventy more years. And there, in front of you, like a giant roadblock, is the question: Is this life good enough for the next seventy years? But maybe that's the easy question. The next logical question--Can I live like this?--is the killer. Because it isn't a yes or no kind of question. It's a do or die kind of question.I avoid moments.”

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”

“When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.”

“As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books--the one true love of my life when growing up.”