Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

A world without love is a deadly place.

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

Until your last breath, you may not be able to see the true beauty of life.

And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.