Childhoods Quotes

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we`ve ever met.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn`t do anything-or that it doesn`t do enough.

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we`d never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.