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As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

You don't realize until afterwards that if you feed the subconscious, it will bleed into your everyday life.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.