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When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

I was always the weirdo at school.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

I was a weird kid.

The world is a very abnormal place.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.