Being alive is the most time consuming thing you'll do all day. Stick with it. Even when you lie down. Cannonballers. Scuba divers. Sidewalkers and drag racers all agree. There's a picture hanging on the hallway where I do my writing. It's of an artist named Niki de Saint Phalle who used to make plaster casts (sometimes of people), fill them with paint and shoot them with her shotgun. In the photo I have on my wall, she is on a ladder, leaning out...