Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one … - Jonathan Lethem

Sometimes it’s better not to think in questions, but I can’t seem to get out of the habit.

"That's when it comes, the urge to shout in the church, the nursery, the crowded movie house. It's an itch at first. Inconsequential. But that itch is soon a torrent behind a straining damn. Noah's flood. That itch is my whole life. Here is comes now. Cover your ears. Build an ark.

"Eat me!" I scream."

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.