It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the wor...

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, Jul...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes...

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and we...

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern ind...

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when...

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough...

A graceful and honorable old age is the chi...

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20...

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adul...

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood be...

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a...