Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

Young people need models, not critics.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and the extreme response is suicide. Their self-destructive, self-loathing is so strong that they just can't live with themselves, and that is just untenable.