“She was right about one thing - I did need a caring, responsible adult around. If I could have cried on the shoulder of someone I trusted, I never would have stopped. Where were all the adults?”

“Life has to be discovered all the time. you can never say "I have done everything I can up to the age of 25, and now I have to settle down and be a responsible, boring adult in a responsible, boring world." You don't have to do that. ”

“Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.”

“I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.”

“I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.”

“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.”