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High school is really when I came into my own.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.