The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being.

“If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fu…”

“We'd understood from high school on that it was Lew's job to make good grades, …”

“Divine essence?' I said. 'Hey, I'm Fat Boy, I'll possess a guy and make him eat…”

“Maybe everyone in the world was this inconsistent, this fragmented. All we coul…”