Andrew W.K. Quotes

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.

No, I'm too tired to run, and you're too fast. You'd only catch me." "That's right, luv." Softly, but with unyielding resonance. "if you run from me, I'll chase you. And I'll find you. Bones said.

What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

It's kind of sad that couples don't want to work together, it's like, 'Wow, you really don't like the person you're with?' I'd rather kiss her then some random person I just met

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to

All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.