Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I'm not real good at romance.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.

I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

I really want to fall in love.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Love is so simple.

I find love from time to time.

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

It's all about love.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I prefer love over sex.

You have to reinvent love.

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.