So I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to. I think... I think that in my heart I needed that to be [her]. I needed her to care about what I did

If I don't do anything that also ruins lives Beginning with your own Maybe Because you need children. Don't you? I don't know if I could ever do that again. No…

Is there really some balance in the universe? Some scale of justice that will bring her here and find some way to set things to rights?

Imitation of life. Mimesis. That's all I am. Plato said we were all shadows. Me more than most

I am one of those people who needs to learn to let people hug me. I also need to need other people because I do.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held …

Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.