So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

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

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

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 is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.