If you read his "Kaddish," about his mother, he had a pretty terrible early childhood.

"I had a terrible, rotten childhood," he told a London newspaper in 1995.

You told me that it was John who didn't want children because he'd had a terrible childhood.

With women, they always want to give explanations: she had such a terrible childhood, or something.

Virtually all the characters in Whispers suffer terrible, violent childhoods.

"But a lot of people have terrible childhoods," said Maggie, some color returning to her face.

I had had such a terrible childhood and youth Suddenly it seemed to me that the past was repeating itself, albeit in a different way.

I even forgot about my terrible childhood and horrendous things that happened to me in my early life.

She has to deal with a terrible childhood as well as accepting all of who she is.

Memoirs of redemption from the survivor of a terrible childhood.