Male Adolescence Quotes

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

My oldest boy is 14, and he's not in that kind of awkward stage where, when we talk about girls, or there's a hot girl walking by - they're just so shy; it's weird.

Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?

Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).