"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood"

"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"

"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"

"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid"