The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.