Matt Groening Quotes

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

I've matured, I understand the game much more, which can be natural as you grow up.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Nobody is born wise.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

I'm just excited to watch my kids grow up.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

You mature, you learn things.

Everyone learns from their experiences.