“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”

“Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.”

“love is an investment!”

“safety and love are both illusions!”

“the word love has no decent definition!”

“Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.”

“Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”