Perhaps all the questions we ask of love to measure test probe and save it have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved that is we demand something love from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Oh lovers be careful in those dangerous first days once youve brought breakfast in bed youll have to bring it forever unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

He suddenly recalled from Platos Symposium People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation a desire that extends to an infinite number of women but in the desire for shared sleep a desire limited to one woman.

You cant measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Two people in love alone isolated from the world thats beautiful.