Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

The good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Stark times remind our souls that things do not matter...people do.