When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.
In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.
I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.
I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.
Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.
That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.