We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

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.

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.

In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

My gast was pretty well flabbered.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

You are a work of art.

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.