"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there"

"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"

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood"

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

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will"

"Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it"

"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"

"Childhood is a promise that is never kept"

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy"