As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.

I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

My mum was a single mum on the dole.

My mum was a single mum on the dole.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

I was on the dole.