It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.

I renounce all love except pure philosophical love. The so-called love of human animals removes people two by two from the only possibility of happiness, which is the communion of beautiful souls.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.

To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.