"You don't think he wants to encourage recklessness? Because he keeps talking about wit, and how important it is, more important than discipline, and all I can think is that people living by their wits improvise all the time, and that's fine, that works -- honestly that worked for me back before . . . and Ezra too, I guess. I mean, it's how we met him."

He takes a deep breath, and exhales it again.

"He's got that already, it feels like to me. I want to balance that. I -- maybe I should ask him. Rex. Because you're right, if he were all improvisation all the time, he wouldn't be alive right now. I just -- it's so easy to get angry at him."