Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
night people broken
I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
knows
Nothing else loves me, nor ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that's not a thing to love.
care i-care dear
And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.
sports idiot looking-good
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
feelings concepts
Me, feeling. What a concept.
play saying-hi courses
Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did.
vanity charming
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.
emotion enough feels
It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.
wicked said courses
But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.
hands logic teach
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
stupid perfect long
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
guilty enjoyable
I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
sympathy synthetic genuine
I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.
skills people desire
When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.