Stumbled across while looking for something else, with apologies to the late Sidney Harris. Novelist James McManus to PopMatters:
11. The best piece of advice you actually followed?
“Don’t fuckin’ do it!” delivered by my friend Reid Schaefer as my parents and grandparents were furiously pressuring me to enter a Jesuit seminary at age 14.
Vas ist dis Jesuit seminary taking 14–year-olds? Never hoid of it.
He did this poker-playing book about Las Vegas. Non-fiction. Oh?