If I had the option to be any one individual in the world--if the constraints of space and time proved of little consequence, of course--I would opt to create a composite individual, forged from a variety of personalities. The following individuals would help to make up my ideal me (P.S. I don't know why this description was exceptionally clinical):

• Tom Waits
• Lao-tzu
• Lisa Simpson
• Werner Herzog
• Atticus Finch
• Raymond Carver
• Isabella Rossellini
• Winnie the Pooh
• David Lynch
• Leo Tolstoy
• Kate Winslet
• Meryl Streep
• Randle Patrick McMurphy
• Stephen Colbert
• Martin Scorsese