Intellectual Intimacy Quotes

truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.

I think, anytime there is a strong intellectual connection and people have shared interest, where they enjoy bantering with each other, there is always potential for a romantic spark. That is inherent.

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.