Garry Shandling Quotes

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

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

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

No sex is better than bad sex.

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.