Liya Kebede Quotes

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

I told my whole life story in my book.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.