.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.

I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.