“To insist that no matter what film, even one about the atomic bomb, shall contain a certain amount of the romantic drug—and romantic more than erotic—known as ‘love-interest’, is to give publicity to the germs that are making marriage ill, not to a cure.” (lol Oppenheimer)

“… Let romantic love overcome no matter how many obstacles, and it almost always fails at one. That is the obstacle constituted by time…That is the first secret of the present breakdown, a breakdown of which the extent can be measured simply by reference to divorce statistics, where the United States heads the list of countries. To try to base marriage on a form of live which is unstable by definition is really to benefit the State of Nevada.”

An interesting book on the Cathars and the Tristan & Isolde story