William Gibson Quotes

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.

'Starman' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual.

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so strongly, of all the kids coming out of their house at the same time, they're all bouncing a ball at the same time, and they all go back in at the same time. A Wrinkle in Time moved me deeply.

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

The past is never where you think you left it.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.