Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.