"The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding." - EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG, The Vanishing Adolescent

"Oh the innocent girl
in her maiden teens
knows perfectly well
what everything means."
- D.H. LAWRENCE, The Jeune Fille

"So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition."
- THEODORE ROETHKE, I'm Here

"At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Imile

"Just at the age `twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth."
- SIR WALTER SCOTT, Marmion

"I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." - SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale

"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults." - GORE VIDAL, Rocking the Boat