"My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields"

"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"

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will"

"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"

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

"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"

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness"