Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

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.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I am very suspicious of people.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.