Intimacy Levels Quotes

It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Friendships can go only so far.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

I'm definitely an elbow-room guy.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court

Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.

Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes, they have horrible communication! They're going to get divorced!' And then I'll hear about them at another time and think, 'Wow, they love each other so much!'

Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

I don't kiss on the first date. My friends always make fun of me for that! But I will hold hands.

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.