The only thing worse than not feeling anything was feeling everything.

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just ­sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.