Latest Quotes

“If I met you last night, and brought you back to my place, or followed you to yours, and we had sex, that's what we asked for from each other. It's what I got, and what you got. I don't know you. You don't know me. Thanks for playing, and we're done.”

— Tammara Webber, Between the Lines

“Hearts don’t break, y’all, they bruise and get better. We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You call 9 – 1 – 1. Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”

— Buddy Wakefield, We Were Emergencies

“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”

— Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“It takes a long time to make love with someone who hates themselves.”

— Buddy Wakefield, The Information Man

“Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. The question of whether what we see is real or simulated has perplexed humans since at least the Ancient philosophers. But it has been given a new and different edge in recent years with…”

— Andrew Griffin, We are living in a computer simulation, Elon Musk says

“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“'I want you to spend the night,' you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, 'Let’s have sex,' or 'Let’s go to my place,' or even 'I really want you,' I’m not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend,…”

— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“I’m not going to say it was love at first sight. No, it was more like oh, hell-yes-please, I’ll have that. With a helping of right-the-fuck-now on the side.”

— Kristen Callihan, The Hook Up

“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting…”

— Robert Glover, No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life

“Transparency is really about reshaping organizational cultures, structures, and processes — even products and services — to prepare companies and organizations to meet new expectations for values-based behavior in an increasingly transparent world.”

— Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

— Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

“The desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”

— Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“A new app called FindFace, recently released in Russia, gives us a glimpse into what this future might look like. Made by two 20-something entrepreneurs, FindFace allows anybody to snap a photo of a passerby and discover their real name — already with 70% reliability.”

— Tarun Wadhwa, Opinion: Facial recognition will soon end your anonymity

“Nearly 250 million video surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the world, and chances are you’ve been seen by several of them today. Most people barely notice their presence anymore — on the streets, inside stores, and even within our homes. We accept the fact that we are constantly be…”

— Tarun Wadhwa, Opinion: Facial recognition will soon end your anonymity

“Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you.”

— Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”

— Susan Sontag, Vassar Commencement Speech

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days.”

— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”

— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things