I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression and sort of as a result these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading math and science. We're even trailing France.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

I don't live with people that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say - no it's not heavy I can hold it myself thank you'.

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

In my late teenage years I developed a real passion for it and wrote a lot of poetry.

While not impossible it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.