I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.