On multiple levels. When I write verse or poetry, it is some inspiration that drives me. When I write fiction, it is the myriad voices of my characters which drives me. When I write a computer program...

None of it ever comes from me, none. Never has, never will. I am merely the instrument through which it brings itself into being in this realm. It already existed, technically, before I ever coaxed into it a form hopefully comprehensible to my fellow humankind.

... I thought every creative person already knew this? Perhaps I was falsely assuming, and it is merely my unique way of looking at the world, at the infinities and eternities that has permitted me to keep from thinking myself loftier than I am.