“I think I may have been the first grown man in the world to fall truly, passionately, sexually, romantically and sentimentally in love. I practically invented it.”

“I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.”

“Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.”

“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.”

“I'm so romantic
I'm such a passionate man
Sometimes I panic
What if nobody finds out who I am?”

“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”

“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”

“With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him in his fall. I caught him, yes, I held him—it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.”