Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.