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.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

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

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.