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Quote | Oct 17 2002

It occurs to me (this really just occurred to me) that if I were someone else and were talking with me about my problems… that is, if I came and told myself my problems, my response would be something like, This is who you are, big guy, so get used to it. I would be tough with myself, because that’s how I am with people I care about.

Like recently I told Eva she should stop trying to be a different person so that someone will fall in love with her, because at best someone will fall in love with who she’s pretending to be, not her, which can only mean trouble once this person, the one Eva fools into falling in love with her, realizes he loves a performance, not a person.

I also told Will to stop claiming he wants a quote unquote serious relationship when what he really wants is pussy, preferably youngish pussy, let us say in its late-twenties and belonging to a woman of a certain look, why lie about it?

The best way to escape a problem is to solve it. This is a quote from a famous person. I like to use quotes like this when discussing my friends’ problems with them. Sometimes I invent the quotes on the spot and attribute them to the sort of people my friends respect but have never read, people like Pascal and Voltaire—neither of whom have I read, by the way, which is fortunate in the sense that I don’t feel encumbered by their actual writings.

The main thing is, I wouldn’t let myself off the hook. No pretending to want to change or to be capable of change when I obviously have no intention of changing, not now or ever.

We don’t change, wrote someone, I haven’t decided who just yet, we just change our delusions.