“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.”
“I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it came to my destiny, he did not know what he was talking about.”
“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”
“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”