The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly ...

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

By itself, love is never enough to sustain a relationship.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

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