I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed... as long as he's willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.

I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.