Panorama City

The head needs sleep to make everyone else’s words into our own words again, it is a conversion process.

The police had questions for me, which I answered truthfully, which is a fine strategy for talking to police, though it can confuse them.

When JB talked about being a conduit, he talked about being a conduit for God, but he was in fact a conduit for Scott Valdez.

The measure of a man’s thinking is in how those words are transformed, the measure of a man’s thinking is what he does with other people’s words, they must penetrate him deeply, they must penetrate him to the core, they must filter through his piled-up experiences and opinions, and they must return transformed.

JB had repeated Scott Valdez’s phrases without transforming them at all. What came out was what had gone in. Which meant that the phrases hadn’t even grazed JB’s core, they’d only bounced off a series of mirrors inside JB.

The joke was: What are the three parts of an old-fashioned stove? Answer: Lifter, leg, and poker. Your grandfather and his guests, they had been drinking, all of them laughed hard and I didn’t understand why until I was in the so-called heat of the moment with the woman who would become your mother, and so that’s why I was suddenly consumed with gi

I’m not sure how it came to be, the reason is probably attached to the great chain of unintended consequences, but Aunt Liz’s calling in life turned out to be preventing me from pursuing mine.

I don’t need to tell you that I can be a slow absorber, I’ve always been a slow absorber, but it’s better than the opposite, your grandfather used to say, which is to be a quick absorber, or sucker.

I imagined a bus with no windshield and no back window, the bugs could pass straight through.