“What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”

“What does it take, then? I love you. I've never loved any woman the way I love you.”

“A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.”

“When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.”