"As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that."

"I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness."

"Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong."

"Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar."

"The foundation of joy is the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."

"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."

"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."