I wanted to be with the kind of people I’d grown up with, but you can’t go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
So many people try to grow up too fast, and it’s not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.