“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”

“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”

“Look, I am living. On what? Neither
childhood nor future
lessens…. Superabundant existence
wells in my heart.”

“I am not a visual person. I have spent so many bounded years in my childhood that I have grown used to having books as my window on reality.”

“I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”

“Snowman sittin' in the sun doesn't have time to waste.”

“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”