David Sedaris Quotes

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.

I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.

I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.

I want flowers; I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I?

My experience of working on this show, even though there is so much about sex and sexuality, and we find out a lot of facts and statistics that are very interesting, in their own right, I found that I started talking about relationships more, and the emotions, the difficulties and the challenges. So, I became far more open about that, which I think is probably an indication with the show itself.

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

A kiss is like a fight, with mouths.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.

How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.