Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.