Friendship as practice

Being anointed as the esteemed animal of truffle pig, Simon said a lot of juicy parts:

“passion is an output, not an input.”
“the thing I’m obsessing about right now, is friendship.” [not better leaders, better parents, better sleep, better eating …]
“the times i slipped, tripped, hit rock bottom, it wasn’t work … but by the grace of some higher power that some friend saw it and picked me up.”
“I can make a sacrifice against my career for my friends.”
“I love to see what you’re sniffing around in because I believe it is connected to something far greater.”
“if we have close friendships and live in community, we are less susceptible to addiction.”
“if we taught our children how to be friends, they are less likely to get addicted.”
“we are teaching people how to do everything…. The one thing we aren’t doing is the old-fashioned, hard, slow thing of making friends.”
“the way to know that those things matter — has anybody done that for you.”
“that’s such a common misunderstanding: I didn’t want to burden you; I didn’t want to bother you. We don’t build trust by offering help, we build trust by asking for it.”
“You asshole. How dare you be so selfish of denying me the honor of showing up for you in your time of need.”
“In the world today, there’s been a total loss of idealism.”

At one point, Noah asks two rhetorical questions with clauses:

What am I, beyond what I do?

Who am I, because of who I am around?