I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert the empty space the drama.

Remember beneath every cynic there lies a romantic and probably an injured one.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt they're sensitive and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny dear part in them that's still alive.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

I'm a hopeless romantic and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well I'll buy the flowers remember the dates of things plan fun nights out.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff but the damage.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I love romantic poetry.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like until you buy the vinyl record you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me thank God.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth still mysterious forces.

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic sexy but classy all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music then the lyrical content starts to come - you know the stories and things like that.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So there's always a new generation with new music.

The other two things are... well I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees and the more romantic the better.

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be for me an oxymoron.