"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge... Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental, since it will lead intelligent people to seek knowledge, in order to find out how to benefit those whom they love."
"Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, American Beauty, Sideways, Dumb and Dumber, Office Space, Waking Life, Stranger Than Fiction, Good As Dead, Boxcutta, and more.
The Simpsons & Scrubs.
"Ultimately, for all the expert criticism in the world, the test of something as subjective as music or literature or even a relationship is our affection for it."