“When you first meet somebody, you find out they like you, first of all. Friend of a friend of theirs says, “He or she really, really likes you.” And it kills you, floors you, sends you to the ground. You gotta pick yourself up off the ground. Then, you get their phone number; you call ‘em up, right? And you say, “Yeah, this is a great phone conversation; can I see ya sometime?” And then they say this, they say, “I’d like that.” “I’d like that” makes you fall on the floor again. Your heart’s about to stop because of “I’d like that.” Nothin’ feels better than “I’d like that.” So now, your blood pressure’s goin’, you’re six feet off the ground, you can’t sleep because of “I’d like that.” So then, you hang out for a while, and you call, you talk on the phone all the time. And then you drop the bomb — what feels like the bomb — you say, “You know what? I’ve been thinkin’ about ya a lot.” And she goes, “Huh…?!” And you go, “What happened?!” And she goes, “I’m sorry! I just — I just — I just — that’s — I’ve been thinking about you, too.” BAM! Higher into the sky. But now, “I’d like that,” tsk, done. Now you’re up to “I’m thinkin’ about ya.” Then, however number of months pass that makes you feel comfortable saying it, you say, “I gotta tell you somethin’.” They go, “What?” You go, “I’m in love with you.” And nothing in the world sounds better than “I’m in love with you.” And then maybe she starts crying, or maybe he goes, “Huh…?!” and all of a sudden, you’re like, “I’m in.” But now what doesn’t work? “I’d like that” and “I’ve been thinkin’ about ya.” Now we’re at “I’m in love with you.” Then maybe someday you move up to “I love you.” Fast-forward, now you’re like, “I love you a lot. I love you more than anything in life.” Now “I love you” doesn’t work. It’s a threshold; it keeps movin’ up. Fast-forward like six months, six weeks, whatever the case may be — now you’re all like, “I wanna marry you. I wanna impregnate you with my love. I wanna — I wanna just send my love to you; damn it, words don’t work anymore!” And then you say this line, and you know you’ve used this line before. “I just wish they’d put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love ‘cause love just doesn’t describe what I feel!” And so then, now, he or she starts askin’, “Do you love me?” and you start goin’, “Of course I love you!” “Well, say it!” And then it becomes “Say it twice!” It becomes “Say it three times!” And then you cross a really interesting point where, all of a sudden, it becomes “I hate you.” “I hate you.” And you go, “Oh, my God — she hates me?!” And now it’s, “I hate you more than anything!” And then it’s like, “We’re over!” And then they go, “No, we’re not!” And you go, “Yes, we are!” Now the words completely do not work at all. You’re left with nothing. You’re throwing punches under water. You’re done.”
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