I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be. This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages... Far too many people misunderstand what 'putting away childish things' means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a 3 or a 130or a 23 means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and 'be' 51, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup. 我仍然是每一個我經歷過的年齡。因為我曾經是個孩子，所以我永遠是個孩子。因為我曾經是一個充滿探索精神的青少年，容易受到情緒和狂喜的影響，這些仍然是我的一部分，而且永遠都是，這并不意味著我應該被困在這些年齡之中，太多人誤解了‘放下孩子氣的東西’的含義，認為忘記像三歲、13歲或二十三四歲的孩子那樣思考和感受、觸摸、聞、嘗、看和聽，就意味著長大成人。當我和這些人在一起時，我像孩子一樣覺得，如果這就是長大的含義，那么我寧愿永遠不長大.