[He's quiet for a moment. Thinking it over. ...Pausing a bit, even once he has.]

...It probably goes without saying that I don't really connect all that well with other people - I don't understand them, there's a lot of fundamental differences between me and them. It's nothing that really bothers me, I'm just fucked up and I know it. Alchemy and chemistry are good, though; they make everything make sense to me when nothing else does. They're constant like that.

So it's something like that, yeah. Even if you can't get something across or you don't understand something, you end up with a better understanding because of what you do have.