Lorrie Moore Quotes

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

I really want that there should be love and respect between me and Ranbir, but at the same time, I want that there should be some kind of distance - that I can see you, but I can't feel you.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

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

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.

My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she's cut out entirely.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

Most sex is not really intimate.

It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.