If I Could Move Away Right Now I Would

"He strove to intensify the intimacy between himself and these special women but immediately withdrew if one of them responded by requesting a closeness he felt crossed an invisible line he had drawn between them. He then tried to control the rebuffed woman's pain or withdrawal from him so the relationship would continue."

--Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar, in Intimate Relations, on why Mahatma Ghandi was kind of an asshole