Is passing through unnoticed, following all the rules — Rules can’t detect the real weapon because the real weapon is not the knife nor the gun, not the corkscrew nor the knitting needle, the weapon is the person. For the weapon, a credit card can open an artery. Security takes away an old woman’s hatpin. An old man’s corkscrew and…

The Lay Psychiatrist does couple’s counseling — Despite my tremendous girth I am an agile man, with such perfect flexibility I can stand flat footed with my back to the door and suddenly drop my head between my legs and look straight at it, upside down. That’s how I met Joe Rogan. We were at the gym…

“The Will feeds on enormous vistas; deprived of them, it collapses” — “What does he expect his obituaries to say? ‘I don’t really care. I said at the end of Voyage to a Beginning [his first autobiography, written 40 years ago] that I regarded myself as the most important writer of the 20th century and I’d be a fool if I didn’t…

Some Videos on my Facebook Feed were bad neighborhoods — I watched a QAnon video before I knew what it was. Or I watched part of it, not knowing what they were getting at, but drawn in. It was one of those believe it or not deals. “Actually, chimps are not monkeys because they don’t have a tail and monkeys have tails. Every goddamned one of them.” Except this was more…