More thoughts on what love is

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great."
--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
--Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz [hey, isn't this the guy who invented calculus?...well, if you think that Isaac Newton didn't...unless you think they both came up with it separately, or whatever]

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
--Anita Brookner

"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
in Whining poetry."
--John Donne

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
--George Bernard Shaw

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
--Rita Rudner

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."
--Rita Rudner

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known."
--Walt Disney

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
--Anna Louise Strong

"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
--Alan Patrick Herbert

Evil

Jenn walked upstairs and it was dark and I was watching TV. As far as I can tell she got here just in time to hear "Allergy medicine and tractor starter fluid put through a coffee filter makes amphetamines." (Or was it "methamphetamines"? I don't know enough about this kind of stuff to know, and I can't remember what happened three minutes ago.)

"Tractor starter fluid doesn't kill you?" said the other voice on television.

"Oh, yeah it will," said the other voice. "But you'll get pretty high first."

"What are you watching?!" Jenn asked.

"The West Wing," I said. Obviously!

"Oh. Because, I was gonna say..."

"They're chasing down people who set off pipe-bombs," I said. "Or something... Apparently tractor starter fluid and allergy medicine filtered through a coffee filter will...explode, or something."

"I bet it doesn't, really," she said.

"Oh, I suppose they just made something up. Kinda sounds made up..." Not, you understand, that I know anything about this either.

"Because I know at least three people that would try it!" she went on. I smiled. I don't doubt that she does.