Graeme Base Quotes

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

I am too childlike to be immature.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I'm a big kid, you know?

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

I've got some growing up to do.

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.