Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

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.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.

The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.