Maturity

"That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up."

"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging."

"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

"Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity."

"The older I get, the less I want to be impressive. I want mornings that don't rush me. Conversations that don't drain me. A life that doesn't ask me to explain myself."

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

"The older I get the more I realise happiness is quiet mornings, a clean space, early nights, a safe home and people who don't drain my energy."