My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. Garry Shandling
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. Barbara Cartland
Among austere men intimacy involves shame – and is something precious. Friedrich Nietzsche
The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible. D H Lawrence
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
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Carolyn Heilbrun