What people don't realize is t...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

~Wystan Hugh Auden ~

To really know someone is to h...

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

~Marcel Jouhandeau~

The many faces of intimacy: th...

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

~Thomas Szasz~