Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

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.

People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.