This is a well-done Q&A on me and my checkered past. Here’s a little more about the paraphrased quote on doctors, actors, and writers. The war novelist was Norman Mailer, who, of course, was a lot more than just the author of The Naked and the Dead. And I know the quote is accurate, because I was within six feet of him at a university seminar when he said it. Mailer was not a model human—he even stabbed one of his wives. But he was very gracious toward everybody at the seminar, including a young reporter from a factory-town newspaper, and even invited me to join him for a drink someday. I’ll be happy to answer anyone’s question on the Mailer encounter or anything else.