Quotes About Intimacy

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?

I do owe Mickey one thing: he taught me how much I enjoyed sex.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

I met my husband Itzik when I got back home to Israel from Oxford in 2002. He is my Internet-of-all-Things.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

Sean and I are fighting so many cliches, it's funny. But ultimately we just want to play people the songs we wrote while we were in our pajamas, in love.

If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now!

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

How lovely for a woman to feel her husband fancies the pants off her.

Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

We have known each other for a long time, and I've always known the real Paris. I always knew she was like wife material or serious girlfriend material.

Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy.

My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.

I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.