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.

Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month.

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.

I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

It's religion that killed our King, you know what I'm saying - that religious idea that has distorted the love of God, and now the world doesn't want it. They don't want religion. They want Jesus in their heart. They want Him. They just don't want the religion.

When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'