Quotes About Maturity

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

When you're growing up in the public eye, it's hard to go from a girl into a woman in front of everyone.

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a national stage.

I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.

The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

I have learnt from experience that being insecure never helps, and neither does pulling anyone's leg.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

You can't be a punk all your life.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.

Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.

I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.