"A terrible confession it was but now, at the age of 53, he hardly needed people anymore."
"If you could be granted one wish... "
"To wake up one morning and feel that I was at last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts, and other wasteful, childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult."
"The thought came to him, struggling home; you don't have to be very smart to be an adult."
Wise words – words, anyway – from adults:
Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, Garrison Keillor