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“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”
― Edmund Gosse

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
― Stendhal

“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”
― Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works