It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.