Yves Klein Quotes

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

I think kids are amazing. You kind of just deal with stuff, don't you? It's only years later that you have to spend thousands in therapy.

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.

I feel like I have grown up.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.