Love Is

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.