No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
Every relationship is a gift exchange.
We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.
Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It's all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It's our new feathers or face paint. It's all very raw.
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Pillow talk is the strongest conversation on the planet.
Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.
