There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.
When you’re young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.
Every book should have a romance.
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
I’ll never look down on and I love running into actors who say ‘Oh yeah, I did a soap.’ I say ‘Tell me which one!’ It’s like being a member of a secret society.
You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.
If I need romance, that’s what Netflix is for.
Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
One thing you don’t want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
Presence is more than just being there.
That’s the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.