We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

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.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

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