I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

The weak fear happiness itself.

In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

The real things are apt to be deviant.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.