Joseph O'Neill Quotes

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

'What's the difference between sex and love?' Hmm. That's a good question. Hey, you interviewed Al Pacino. How'd he answer that?'

My dear friend Aaron Paul. I love you so much.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust.

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.

I want to be with you.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.