“I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.” — Charles Caleb Colton Quote

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.