Murray Walker Quotes

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

Do we need distance to get close?

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I - not a hell of a lot of difference.

You know how a dog and his owner start to look alike after a while? Well, that's like me and Billy.

What people respond to is intimacy and regularity.

Kaka is a personal friend to me.

We were constantly together. Anybody who had a boyfriend had to go through the Go-Go's first. It was a little too close for comfort after a while.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

Love goes toward love.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Being close ain't good enough.

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.