http://nymag.com/news/features/childhood/ Some of my favorites are Barbara Walters, Richard Price, Spike Lee, and, of course, Paris & Nicky Hilton ------- [ANGIEDIT] Thanks for posting this. There are too many good quotes to keep adding as comments, so I'll re-publish below. Some are just amusing/interesting, others, extremely resonant (for me). My mother and I are immigrants, and I was oblivious. We didn’t have TV, we didn’t have radio. My mother was afraid of the outside world—she survived the concentration camps, so of course you’re clannish. She stuck me in the yeshiva. The problem was I couldn’t speak English. One of the first phrases I learned was, “What, are you stupid? Can’t you speak English?” [Gene Simmons] We used to take the subway from Brooklyn up to Yankee Stadium. It seemed like I was going to Canada. [ Rudy Giuliani ] The life of a kid in New York City, it’s about making your circles bigger and bigger around your home. W...