"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh". Agnes Repplier
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." Plato
"Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better". William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night
"If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons