Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.