A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.