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

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

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

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

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

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.

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.