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Play is the work of childhood.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.