Private Act Quotes

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I wanted people to love the book. And the only way to get them to love it is to try to make it good for them. So of course the audience has to be considered.

I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept one hand down his pants.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants.

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.