I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
“I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.”
“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”