“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

“You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”

“And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.”

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”

“You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see… it's allowing someone to know who you are when you have all these defenses to keep them from knowing.”

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”

“The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.”

“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”

“Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.”

“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”