I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.