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

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.

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.

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

The only way out is through

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

I never read Karl Marx.

Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.