With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you. ' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you. '
It's insecure, and it's immature.
Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust. . . but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.
I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
. . . I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature
The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.
My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.
I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.