“If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?”
“Two things a man can give the woman he loves...his name and his protection...”
“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
“It's a physical sickness. Étienne. How much I love him. I love Étienne. I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he has a cute accent.”
“If you do not know why you should love your wife as a man, love her because she is more emotionally oriented.”
“A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.”