We think that we are invincible because we are.
You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.
[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.
