I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. Furthermore, I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you're adult enough to have sex, you're adult enough to talk about your feelings.

— Carter Quinn

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

— Jenny McCarthy

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless, and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.'... We sat there, side by side, on the old wooden bench, not saying anything. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children books hidden in the middle of dull, long books. The kind with no pictures or conversations.

— Neil Gaiman

In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is always perfect. A kid winter is an endless and wild snow carnival where all the rides are free.

— Carew Papritz

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

— Bryant McGill

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...

— Neil Gaiman

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children’s books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

— Neil Gaiman

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

— Criss Jami