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It's Very Different To Have This Kid That I'm Truly Responsible For.

There's A Serendipity To Real Life That The Internet Can't Duplicate. Do You Use The Library? For Anything? Well, Sometimes You End Up Picking Up The Book Next To The One You Were Looking For, And It's That Book That Changes Your Life.

Would-be Novelists Need To Bring Equal Parts Arrogance And Ignorance To The Task Before Them. The Arrogance Is Almost Self-explanatory. Walk Into Any Bookstore Or Library, Calculate How Many Lifetimes The Average Person Would Need To Read All The Fiction Contained Therein. To Think That One Has Anything To Contribute, To Any Genre Or Tradition, Takes Genuine Hubris.

As For Music, My Tastes Are Eclectic. Elvis Costello Is My All-time Favorite. I Listen To A Lot Of Jazz, Primarily The Great Female Vocalists, And I Am Very Fond Of The Late Cabaret Singer Nancy Lamott.

It's Smarter To Be Lucky Than It's Lucky To Be Smart.