Adult Quotes

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She’s a workaholic, like I am. We’re not super family-oriented people, you know?

That goes against what I believe morally. That’s adultery, and if I’m accused of that, no, that’s not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn’t happen, and it’s not to be reported that way.

I have an only child. She’s so independent and good with adults.

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I’ll always sign for a kid before an adult.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.