All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

You've got to grow up sometime.