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Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.

I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.