It's not so easy.""What isn't?""To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing.

I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.

Your best friends are in trouble and you say 'of course' and forget them instantly.

Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.

We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.

I have felt more passion with less comfort elsewhere: the mysterious deep half-blind preferences of human beings for each other, the quick probing tentacles that seek in the dark, why one inexplicably and yet certainly loves A and is indifferent to B.