Zack Love > Quotes

“Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever serendipity brought its parents together, and the fact that the child was born to its particular parents instead of to another couple is pure happenstance. Thus, children have no choice over the relationship that is most important to their existence.
By contrast, friends and lovers choose each other, but even these choices are reactions to whatever random coincidence made the resulting relationship possible.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“...being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that...”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?"

From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Every person is a puzzle with a password. By solving the puzzle, the potential for emotional and physical intimacy is realized.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“...for the last twelve months I've been more single than a one-dollar bill."~Sammy”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“I find it difficult to relate to people who enjoy discussing the utterly uninteresting and unchangeable facts of life.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.”
― Zack Love, The Doorman

“Summer sticks to her skirt sumptuously, in the shiny gray fabric hanging loosely from her curves. Her chestnut eyes, apparently hidden from strangers; her simple but graceful face, unpainted by Madison Avenue; and her straight black hair, parted down the middle without ego, all suggest a minimalist - almost pastoral - beauty that is oddly discordant with her fashionable attire, comfortable indifference to the crowds, and quasi-attentive perusal of the Time magazine unfolded over her hand.”
― Zack Love, City Solipsism

“ Any relationship with long-term potential has a honeymoon period, however brief, marked by the happy illusion that one's lover might be uniquely perfect. This fool's paradise is sustained by the elaborate deception artfully employed in every courtship: the diplomatic dodging of difficult issues, the careful concealing of unflattering flaws, and the strategic stressing of charming virtues. But as trust increases and each person grows weary of maintaining this initial beguilement, the blissfully blurry lens through which the other is perceived eventually refocuses to a clearer picture.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume's way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had ever experienced. This paradox only made me more morose about modernity. Why was I going to watch my hairline recede in front of two-thousand-line spreadsheets staring at me from cold, glowing monitors? Why was everyone in my office apparently so happy to be spending so many hours there, when the things they really cared about - people, pets, pastimes - were all relegated to a few photographs on their desks? That seemed to be the formula: spend the best years of your life in an office with photos of what you really care about.”
― Zack Love, The Doorman

“Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Anyway, I think Florence and I noticed each other before the local train screeched to a halt at the 110th Street station, because as I boarded it felt as though we were supposed to step into the same car, and hold onto the same moist metal bar. My wishful hunch now seems confirmed by the way she's reading her Time magazine article next to me.”
― Zack Love, City Solipsism

“Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.”
― Zack Love, City Solipsism

“When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.



From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“As Narc became busier at work, he developed a bold new dating philosophy. His idea of a perfect first date was doggy-style, followed by a cup of coffee. He just didn’t have the time or patience for anything resembling conventional courtship patterns and felt too depressed to be the charming smooth talker that he had once been.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working”
― Zack Love, The Doorman

“So...Now that we got that over with, let's get back to love at first sight, Evan said.
Not infatuation at first sight...Love. With a capital L, he clarified.
Love? Heeb asked, playfully pretending not to know the concept.
Yeah. The real thing. The conviction that if you had this one woman, all other women would become irrelevant. You'd never again be unhappy And you'd give up anything to have her and keep her.
You've experienced that?
Only once. And I haven't stopped thinking about it ever since.
Tell me more.
Sometimes I think that I still chase women just to forget about her. Because I know I can never have her. But I can't seem to forget about her, no matter what girl I'm chasing...No one can possibly compare....
Who is she?
Delilah, Evan said wistfully.
Delilah?, asked Heeb, intrigued
Delilah Nakova, Evan replied, with a hint of awe and reverence in his voice.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“Let the park live in you until it sings you a song.”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“That being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that relationship.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“Indeed, wounded loved can make for fierce vengeance. And, from what I know of Anissa, it does seem a bit out of character for her to behave so spitefully, so I'd like to think that she really is just deeply hurt, angry and looking for some way to injure me back...I hope she knows how well she's succeeded.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“Aren't 3,000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?”
― Zack Love, The Doorman

“And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."

From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“You know what you need?”
“What?”
“You need to think about what a badass bald man would do in this situation”
“There are no badass bald men. By definition.”
“What about Dwight D. Eisenhower?” Carlos suggested.
“President Eisenhower?”
“Doesn’t he qualify as a badass?” Carlos insisted.
“Look, he may have been president, but he doesn’t exactly come to people’s minds when you ask them to think of a badass.”
“All right. How about Kojak?” Carlos asked.
“That police detective show with Telly Savalas?” Sammy asked.
“Yeah, Kojak. He was a badass. Always cool under pressure.”
“All right,” Sammy replied. “Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that Kojak was a bald badass. So what?’
“So you have to imagine how Kojak would deal with this situation we have in front of us. He wouldn’t be worried about whether this girl digs bald guys. He would just walk right up to her, knowing that he’s a badass and just take care of business. You see, it’s all in the delivery.”
“The delivery?”
“Yeah, the execution”
― Zack Love

“You see, Baci literally means 'kiss' in Italian so – I think you could fairly expect a chocolate or a non-chocolate kiss on every date.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.”
― Zack Love, Anissa's Redemption

“Check my riddle, and I’ll let you play my fiddle.”
― Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“Summoning my inner Kojak, I tried to convince myself that she would have sat next to me even had there been somewhere else on the bus to sit. Unfortunately, I didn't do a very good job of self-persuasion. Good thing I wasn't in court suing myself, because I would have lost.

From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: A Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers.

--Anissa's Redemption”
― Zack Love