It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.