“…girls, women, are not interested in romance but only facts.”

“…women aren't interested in the romance of dreams; they are interested in the reality of facts, they don't care what facts, let alone whether they are true or not if they just dovetail with all the other facts without leaving a saw-tooth edge.”

“Maybe I was completely wrong that morning when I said how women are only interested in facts because maybe men are just interested in facts too and the only difference is, women dont care whether they are facts or not just so they fit, and men dont care whether they fit or not just so they are facts.”

“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”

“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”

“"You don't know very much about women, do you?" she said. "Women aren't interested in poets' dreams. They are interested in facts. It doesn't even matter whether the facts are true or not, as long as they match the other facts without leaving a rough seam."”

“As long as the women I’m romancing are happy with me doing it then I’ll carry on.”

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”