“It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.”
“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.”
“I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.”
“Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.”
“Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.”
“Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...”