“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”
“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”
“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”
“We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.”
“What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?”