"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn"

"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost"

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life"

"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of"

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older"

"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood"

"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood"

"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night"

"I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy"

"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else"

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will"