“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.”

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

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

“Childhood whose very happiness is love.”

“I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.”

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

“It's funny how much of your childhood is about proximity.”

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

“Fermat was my childhood passion.”