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I think that I've had a very strange life.

I've had some weird experiences.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.