“It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.”
“Woman has 3 ages: Youth, Second Youth and Everlasting Youth.”
“youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy”
“A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".”
“Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.”
“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away”