Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.