King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.