“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 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
“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
“To make love with a woman and to sleep with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite.”— Milan Kundera
“The satisfaction of lust requires a partner, and the pattern of lust is not in itself completely satisfying.”— Harry Stack Sullivan
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's alright with them.”— Alain de Botton
“Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.”— Alice Cary