Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.
The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.