“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.” D.H. Lawrence

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.” Henry Miller

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” Pablo Neruda

“Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever — or else swoon in death.” John Keats

“We’re getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I’m going to let you yank on me.” Robert Sapolsky

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” Vladimir Nabokov

“You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other’s otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full contact — all that?” Martin Amis

“Stuff me in a tutu and let’s screen experimental videos all day.” Sam Lipsyte