As the mores and laws of the South made such liaisons illegitimate by law and nonexistent in speech, race mixing became an erasable element of one’s past. Sexual intimacy between blacks and whites was not a subversive act provided it was not formally acknowledged.
He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.
No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.
Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
My father was hard to know and gave little indication that there was much to know. He claimed he remembered almost nothing about his childhood.
My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
For Valentine's Day, I wrote my crush a song and had it professionally recorded. I never released it, though, because I wanted it to be a song just for her. I thought it would be more special that way.
This love is silent.
Khamoshiyan' is emotional like 'Raaz.'
I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.
My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.
