I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius
I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems. I didn't want to admit I had problems. I just let 'em build up. I didn't want anybody to know I was hurtin'.
Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.
I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.
I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.
Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms.
