Romance is thinking about your significant other when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest it's so disarming.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

The telephone which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations has a romance of its own.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt they're sensitive and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny dear part in them that's still alive.

A tramp a gentleman a poet a dreamer a lonely fellow always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The word 'romance ' according to the dictionary means excitement adventure and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

I'm a hopeless romantic and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well I'll buy the flowers remember the dates of things plan fun nights out.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

In my books and in romance as a genre there is a positive uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff but the damage.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time but it is poetry in the memory.