Children even infants are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Well I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Even as kids reach adolescence they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very very involved and interested in art and particularly in animated movies.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness the volatility the wholesale lack of impulse control all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

When I was 14 I felt very rundown I had a home to go to but I felt like I was 60 or something older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14 or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay or closeted gay or whatever it was I felt that.