Adam Phillips - Jean Rostand - Jean-Louis Gassee - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Ryan Gosling - Stephen King - William Golding - Trailer Park Boys 2001-2018 -
I think Jack [Lord of the Flies] is a fake grown-up. Jack’s a boy enacting the idea of adulthood rather than have become an adult. And what you get then is a caricature of what adulthood is like when children pretend to be adults. Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst & author
To be adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand, 1954
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive. Jean-Louis Gassee
I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. Ryan Gosling
Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. Stephen King, It
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Look, let’s just pretend we’re adults here for a moment please. Trailer Park Boys s2e7: The Bare Pimp Project, Mr Lehey