Oh boy, a whole lot. Vonnegut was a big one. Like AlderaanDuran, I loved Sirens of Titan. I also read and re-read the Dune series by Frank Herbert as well as The Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams. I think Vonnegut and Adams helped to reassure me that in fact, many adults do not know what they're talking about and that there's a funny side to everything. Herbert taught me all kinds of things, especially about looking at things on different scales of time and influence.

I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I think that really helped to develop my natural curiosity about things too.

When people ask me for recommendations for books, I generally tell them to read The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I read it when I was about 20 and it really helped me see things in a different way. Essentially, the book pits the arguments of living lightly, taking it as a given we only live once and therefore there are no consequences or living with weight, that is, everything we do matters.