As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
As a young aspiring journalist, I felt I was put into a box.
Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.
Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.
Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.
What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen's wonderful - this sort of comedy coming from her. I mean, all of her books are comic.
Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.