“There's no such thing as a casual sex life. You can't afford to be casual with sex.”— George Michael
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”— Pablo Neruda
“To make love with a woman and to sleep with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite.”— Milan Kundera
“Secrecy is the enemy of intimacy. Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, craves intimacy.”— Susan Olsen
“The reason I paint them... is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human.”— Mark Rothko
“Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”— Pepper Schwartz
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's alright with them.”— Alain de Botton