"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortbread. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortbread out to me. And I say I don't want it any more and throw it out of the window. That's what I'm looking for."
"And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me ' Now I see, what a fool I've been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry short bread. I have all the intelligence and sensitive of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to you. I'll go out and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate mousse? Cheesecake?' "
" So then I'd give him all the love he deserves for what he's done"
If you can understand what I just wrote, I just wanted to tell you that we aren't really different. I just took me longer to understand this.