“Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.”
“It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.”
“If wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in my childhood.”
“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”
“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”
“I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.”