"Listen," Golam continued, "I don't feel sorry for you. I don't feel sorry for you because I can't feel sorry for you. I can't feel sorry for you because you can't feel sorry for yourself. And I'm not sure I'd WANT you to feel sorry for yourself. Do you know what it's like to actively try to get the other person to feel sorry for you? It's an act of manipulation. It's a way of manipulating them: emotionally. That's partly what love is about, although I guess you'll never comprehend its conceptual appeal. Still, you must realize that it's a very powerful elixir that starts dematerializing your psychic landscape and once this psychic landscape starts to dematerialize, you have no choice but to act... to act human."