“The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.”
“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”
“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play”
“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”
“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”