PHILLIP LOPATE: Well, I'm a day person. I'm not a night owl. And usually I get up and have coffee and start to work and probably from between 3 to 5 hours. Sometimes when I'm really involved in a project, I'll lie in bed and just ask my subconscious mind certain questions. And it turns out to be very fertile and suggestible at that early hour. And then I may go to my desk immediately, even before I have coffee.