“There is a thing within me that wants to be liked. I wanted to say to Stephen, ‘You’ve never met me. Why did you say you didn’t like me?’ Why do I have to go through life trying to be liked by everybody? You can get people to pretend to like you, but then you catch them saying to their friends, ‘What an a--- Jim is.’ I think the lesson I’m trying to learn from the House is that you just can’t do it.”