A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.