i also got another editor at knopf, kathy horrigan, who has -- [applause] who has worked with bob gottlieben my editor, lynn has been my agent and kathy has worked on my books ever since. 1972. to save you the trouble of calculating, that's 44 years ago. [laughter] so for all that time, 44 years, i have had the same editors and the same agent. together, we have worked on five books. whatever lifetime acheesm ii have, bob and lynn and kathy are part of it. those three people were with me 44 years ago, and they're with me today. that that fact alone makes looking back on my life terrific. another person has been a big part of my life, sonny. sonny came to knopf -- [applause] in 1987. so sonny is a relative newcomer in my life. [laughter] 29 years is barely more than a quarter of a century, hardly worth mentioning. [laughter] it has meant a lot to me to have sonny with me. whenever i have a manuscript, i go in to see him. and in complimenting the manuscript, he always says, picks out the very things that i most wanted readers to get out of the book. he has a gift, and it's quite a rare gift i