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

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music...

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

It's all very misguided. They're starting too early, and getting burned out.