Is The Raggle-taggle Brangelina TRIBE Any More Bogus Than That Of The Landlocked Yummy MUMMY Who Believes That She Can DROP HALF A Dozen Brats And Still Keep A Modest CARBON Footprint? I Don't Think So.

No, I've Never Competed. I Did, However, Train In A Boxing Gym With A GOOD Coach Beginning In 1993. I'd Been WRITING About The Sport For A Dozen Years By Then And Wanted To KNOW What Boxers Endured, What It Felt LIKE. I Was Too Old To Compete When I Started, But I Sparred Enough To GET A Taste.

After FOLLOWING More Than 60,000 People For More Than A Dozen Years, University Of OXFORD Researchers Found Those Who Consume A Plant-based Diet Were LESS LIKELY To Develop All Forms Of Cancer Combined.

I FELT I COULD Play In MAYBE A Dozen Tournaments A YEAR As An Amateur.

Sometimes I'll GO Without WRITING For A While And I'll Start To Be Driven Nuts. I Start Doubting My Writing Ability. So I'll SIT Down And A Dozen Songs Will Pop Out. It's Fun.

When It Comes To Romance, I Believe In KEEPING It Simple. With My Last Girlfriend, We Were On Our WAY To Our Favorite Restaurant When I Pretended That The CAR Was Crappin' Out. I Asked Her To Get Out And CHECK If Smoke Was Coming From The Exhaust. When She Did, I Popped The Trunk And Inside Were Six Dozen Roses And A Stuffed Bear.

There's Been ALMOST A Dozen FILMS That Have Been MADE Against Me. There's ACTUALLY More Films Made Attacking Me Than Films I've Made.

Life Is Much More Available In New York - There Are A Dozen MOVIE Theaters WITHIN Walking Distance. LIVING In California Is Easier, But You GET Sedentary.

I COULD NAME You A Dozen Superheroes Whose Powers I'd Like To Have. But If I Could Have Any Power In The World, It Would Be The Power To Read Or Watch A Creative Work And Absorb The Technical Skill Of The People Who Made It. Because Then I Could Have Even More Fun WRITING. That's My Core Identity. I'm A WRITER. I Just Love Telling STORIES.

Our Culture Constantly Inundates US With New Information, And Yet Our Brains CAPTURE So Little Of It. I Can Spend HALF A Dozen Hours Reading A BOOK And Then Have Only A FOGGY Notion Of What It Was About.