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

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues.

A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.

You're not going to get weird on me, are you?"

"How exactly would I get weird on you?"

"I don't know, but the way you just said weird felt a little weird to me.