It's still considered experimental to do what happened with Barney Clark -- which is to put the person on the pump for the rest of their life, never intending to transplant them.

I had to put down the violin. It was devastating. . . . But if it hadn't happened I never would have considered conducting. I went through a total career turnaround.

The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, narrow crannies. In the leaves, the toad's pulse. The delicate cellular warfare in a waterdrop. A dextrocardiac, said the smiling doctor. Your heart's in the right place. Weathershrunk and loveless. The skin drawn and split like an overripe fruit.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

I can't take a great deal out of the game with what's happened in the last minutes,

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.