What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.