Distilled Essence of Scarcity
He imagines that love is in short supply, so that whatever bit of love he manages to stumble over he feels he must keep for himself so he can survive. Since he is in such short supply of love, he feels he cannot give any love away to another. (Not being in his right mind, he doesn’t remember that giving triggers the function of multiplication), as he imagines that would mean that he, himself, would starve and die for lack of love.
However, love is like inches; it’s hard to run out of, and takes a major act of imagination to pretend that there is not enough. Love is like air; if you want more it’s necessary to breathe more deeply.