Daniel V. Klein

I do hereby resolve, with all seriousness and firmness of conviction, never to grow up. I will accept my years, and the responsibilities that accompany them, but never, ever shall I lose the child in me. I do not fear age (so long as it is not accompanied by infirmity), nor do I reject maturity (as age without maturity is an inept handling of ones mind and body). But the child, the carefree youth, the joyful sprite that can find amusement in nothing and peers out from behind my adult eyes and smiles at the world, is so inestimably important that I refuse to to let that spirit perish within me.