Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

And love is love in beggars and in kings.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that you're really not. Real love is different.

Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.

Love is full of anxious fears.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.

Love is a brainworm.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

Courtney Love is so famous among journalists for her loquaciousness that the joke is that you don't have to worry about questions when you interview her - just be sure you have lots of tape.

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.