Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.
I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.
For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.
We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.
There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.
In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.
I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.
Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.
The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people.
Christmas cards. . . are technically only junk mail from people you know.