The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

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.

O Lord of mercy, have pity on us.

Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it’s what you make it.

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

A dolly move is a moral commitment.

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.