“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

“I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.”

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”

“Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood”

“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.”