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There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.