Tom Perrotta Quotes

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

To me, love is everything. I can't think of living without it happily. Only when it's there in my life do things happen smoothly for me.

But what doesn't change is that love is something we all crave. Everyone is looking for that touch, that emotion, that feeling. Love makes the mundane matter.

I surround myself with love and look forward to being in love.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.