You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.

I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.