“In each man’s heart there’s a secret sorrow that the world knows nothing about. And often we call a man ‘cold’ when he’s really just sad. And I think that humanity feels that their sorrow is for you and their compassion is for you, but it has touched a part of their hearts that they will not open the door themselves. They won’t even begin… and in the subconscious the tie is there.”

Lillian Roth via This American Life