I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.
I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
I'm not a big fan of young people.
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.