Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. (1449b24)

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at …

It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing…

In your teens and your 20s, you're immortal, you're untouchable. It's only later that you begin to realize you are mortal. (2004)