“The idea of an opera for television has to do with the fact that you can get very close to the person.”— Robert Ashley
“For me, the sex act is a physical expression of a spiritual and intellectual union.”— Barbara Amiel
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.”— Roland Barthes
“For a woman to see a man's face, to see his bare skin, was a delight. But for her to see his naked soul, that was a pleasure that could kill.”— Yasunari Kawabata
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”— M. F. K. Fisher
“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them.”— Annie Leibovitz
“Alone together, beyond the crowd, above the world, we're not too proud to cling together.”— Howard Dietz
“Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.”— Keanu Reeves
“If you're not having sex, you're not having a marriage, you're having a friendship.”— Pepper Schwartz
“The satisfaction of lust requires a partner, and the pattern of lust is not in itself completely satisfying.”— Harry Stack Sullivan