BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF “So when your life falls apart, you have to be the one to put it back together. That’s just the way things are. No beautiful boy with nature’s eyes and the devil’s tattoos can do it. Nobody but yourself.” I was always hungry for something: food, love, attention, strength, intelligence. That hunger was the thing that disgusted me the most, repulsed at my human needs. So I starved myself of it all, but found myself no better off. It is better to need and want than deprive and desire.