Intimate Connections Quotes

I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

I've had past boyfriends and a couple girlfriends.

When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'

Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

The only people I care about are my wife and kids, my mom and brother, close friends to the family. Anybody outside my circle, I could care less.

I have never slept in a bed with anybody. Even when I was married we slept in separate beds.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

What can pay love but love?

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.