Lots of info flows by in a job like mine so you have to sort through until you’re left with what’s important. Once—this was after perhaps an extra bourbon or two—Bernie said, “We’re like bears in the rapids, waiting for the right fish.” Bears? Us? That’s a picture I’d like to forget, but can’t.

(from A Farewell to Arfs, the next Chet and Bernie novel, coming Aug. 6 and preorderable in hardcover, e-book, audio)