My mates have often been angered by how much attention I pay to paper and how little attention I pay to them.
I can only reply that the secret to success in every human endeavor is total concentration.  Ask any great athlete.
To put it another way: Sometimes I don’t consider myself very good at life, so I hide in my profession.
I know what Delilah really did to Samson to make him as weak as a baby.  She didn’t have to cut his hair off.  All she had to do was break his concentration.
– Kurt Vonnegut