“Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.”

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

“Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.”

“Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat”

“Life with me and the Company has not been anything like happily ever after. Reality has a way of slow-roasting romance.”

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”

“I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.”

“To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man’s eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash”

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”