Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.
Romantic love is painful.
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
The romantic love of my life, I'm sure, was Burt Bacharach. I had a few that were wonderful, but I married him, and that's going pretty far.
Romantic love is an addiction.
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.
My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.
My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'
I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.
I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
