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I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.