Interview notes 16 (January 2023)

Inspirations

"Do you have an inspiration for what you do ? Someone or something that made you think, 'I could do this'!"

First let me admit that I have always — since early childhood — had a firm and entirely unjustified belief that I can do *anything at all that I put my mind to*. Sad to say, this is ridiculously untrue.

Nonetheless, I have what I think are a formidable array of talents, and if thinking too highly of myself means I experience both amazing successes and predictably stupid failures, so be it.

Now, there are examples in the world which inspire me. I remember being eight or nine, reading excerpts from Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary". Another example of the pleasure I took at a young age in satire! At the time, I did not say "I'm going to do that when I grow up!" But the seeds of the idea were there, waiting for someday.