Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

-Fisher, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy)
  An  Alphabet for Gourmets,'A Is for Dining  Alone'.

We do not like the confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-grained and the cankered, and the howling wilderness to the amenities of civilization, the irascible to the affable, the prickly to the smooth.We have no damned fellow- feeling at all.

-Grieve
  'The Dour Drinkers of Glasgow', in The American Mercury, Mar.

Decorative art doesnot existöonlyart, intimate, heroic, or epic.

-Rouault, Georges  Henri
  La Renaissance.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because, when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

-Sterling, Rod
  'TheTrend-SettingTraditionalism of Architecture', in the NewYorkTimes,13 Jan.