Quotes about Intimacy

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

It's risky, falling in love.

I'll make love with them in their houses or in the woods, I'll feel a certain degree of pleasure, but the moment I reach orgasm, the feeling of emptiness will return.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.

It is possible for love to grow and multiply if you work at it.

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves that is true.

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God.