“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”
“And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”
“I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”
“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”
“I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.”
“I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.”