Quotes About Connection

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.

The more you love, the more you can love—and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing—and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other's thoughts, in the other's language.

You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Samuel Clemens put it: Where she was, there was Eden. Omar phrased it: -thou beside me in the wilderness, ah wilderness were paradise enow. Browning termed it Summum Bonum. All were asserting the same great truth, which is for me: Heaven is where Margrethe is.

Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and the planets wheel in their proper places. Once in a while the lonely, broken spirit of man is healed and made whole. For a while his quest is over and his questions are answered.

The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.

Until a person, man or woman, has enjoyed this treasure bathed in the mutual bliss of minds linked as closely as bodies, that person is still as virginal and alone as if he has never copulated.

When, after a week, Jubal had had no other message, he sent a stat care of Ben's office: What the hell are you doing? Ben's answer came back, somewhat delayed: Studying Martian and the rules for hopscotch -- fraternally yours -- Ben.

The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It could not have fit better if it had been made on my body. It knew things about me I wouldn't learn for years yet, and approved of them all.

I miss you dreadfully!

Whether you stay a night or a year. Yours without invitation, yours to come and go without bothering to say hello or good-bye. Although I hope it will suit you to say hello to me frequently.

I spent time then soothing Mike down and trying to make him happy, having figured out what troubled him—thing that makes puppies cry and causes people to suicide: loneliness.

No one partner in life can supply all the possible richnesses of living to another. I speak now not only of physical sexual associations, but also of associations mental and spiritual

Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.