#Youth

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

"She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy."

"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."

"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

"Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda."

"Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait."

"33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins."

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"

"Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten."

"Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!"

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."

"Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"I had a dream about you. The seasons changed, but you did not. You were the same old person you always were, only older. And I was the same old person I always was, only younger. Yes, I’d discovered the Fountain of Youth, and since we were such old friends, I was going to let you have a swig for 10% off the suggested retail price."

"The first door in the hall leads to youth, the second door leads to middle age, and the third door leads to the bathroom. But knock first, because I think grandpa’s in there."