“The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...”
“As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?”
“if you ain't from no barrio, then you aint born."-a ten year old boy”
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!”
“I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.”
“What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!”