There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.