You never know your partner as well as you think.

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.

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.