Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

I was married and divorced at 23.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

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.

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.