Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.
This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.
[Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different. . . From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence
There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy
To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow. " It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me. " There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.
If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.
Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.