Asymmetric Relationships Quotes

Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way.

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.