Arthur Cohn Quotes

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.

Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?

Before going home with a guy, give him a blow job. Guys are always more relaxed after a blow job.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.