In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.

If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.

No shifting in my car Blake, I don't want slobber all over my seats." Neesa

Love tone, rhythm, lyrical or melodic structure from heart to love! is the interlude of true love.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Why in the world are you a Republican?

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave.