“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”
“It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.”
“Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?”
“Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.”
“I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's horror.Horror? Really?Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.”
“She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm...”