“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”
“As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.”
“Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.”
“I sat there thinking this had to be the pits. I was afraid that I had become fed up with life, that I would never ever feel enthusiasm again.”
“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.”
“I'll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that's probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess.”