“When I was a little boy, (when I was just a boy)
And the devil would call my name (when I was just a boy)
I'd say "Now who do,
Who do you think you're fooling?"”

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”

“Now, when you pass my way
I guess I'll smile and say
To think that boy was mine
Once upon a time”

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.”

“And silence … is loud! And I'd be straining real hard to hear what those two boys were saying. And finally, just when they figured I had my ear right against the window, one of those ol' boys would turn to the other and say "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?" And the other one would say "Why no, tell me about it!"”

“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”

“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.”

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

“When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.”

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”