Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, 'Wow that's kind of an unusual way to live your life.'
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.
I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
I like the gypsy aspect of this business.
I live a rock-star kind of life where I don't go to bed until 4 A.M. I'm very nocturnal.
I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.
I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.
I've lived the wackiest, weirdest life.
When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.
My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Mine has been a pretty strange path.
