Adulting

We're all children.  We invent the adult facade and don it and try to keep the buttons and the medals polished.  We're all trying to give such a good imitation of being an adult that the real adults in the world won't catch on.

-- John Dann MacDonald (1916 - 1986), American writer of novels and short stories, most famous for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee, A Tan and Sandy Silence (1972)