I liked you very much. I wanted to steal your style. You had this kind of sloppiness about you.” “I prefer the term corporeal disregard.” “Well, I wanted to steal that … disregard. And I wanted to steal, too, your cultured, gentle regard for others.” “A young hoodlum who let himself be taken by the pimps—in order to steal their ego. That’s Sartre, describing Jean Genet.” “That’s right. That’s exactly right, I wanted to steal your ego. God, I was miserable then. Mortified by my own body. I wanted to leap up out of my skin. I wanted to know things.”
