Quotes about Connection

Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.

Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly. "Mr. Kirk, you're a man after my own heart.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

When you keep working with somebody, you find out a lot of things about them if you don't know each other personally.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.