The books that come to mind are books from childhood, those always form the strongest memories for everybody.

My childhood was spent in Berlin in Germany so they're all in German. I still have some of them at home.

Not the oddest, but the most influential book in my whole life was a book called The 35th Of May by Erich Kestner who wrote Emil and the Detectives. There are some English translations which I would avoid, but it was just a fantasy, well science fiction really, but it's a fantasy tale that had a great important role in the development of my own attitude to life and to fantasy and to showmanship.