I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.