Quotes About Intimacy

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Men date. Women have relationships.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Love between a man and woman is war.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.