When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.