I have to be asked I guess but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic and I always have been.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting than any romance however passionate.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

I'm a romantic and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more and we hurt more. When we're hurt we hurt for a long time.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.