 But even at the New Yorker, I mean, his office, he shared an office with James Thurber and he had a fire escape in his office and somebody might come, you know, looking for one or the other of them and he would escape out the fire escape and down to the street, go find something to write about. He did not give public readings. He, you know, he hated to have to show up on the stage to accept an award. He tried it once or twice without much success and then decided he didn't need to do it anymore.