I've been an avid reader all my life, finding author's that I liked and then reading everything they'd written. Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Silverberg, John Steinbeck, Will Self and Charles Bukowski have been just a few of my favorites.
Being very visually oriented I've also been a huge fan of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones and animation in general ... including books for adult audiences that have illustrations. Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece Meets the Big O has been very influential. In fact I used it many, many times in my practice to get across points about relation more...