The idea [to get rid of the infinite self-energies in the classical theory] seemed so obvious to me and so elegant that I fell deeply in love with it. And, like falling in love with a woman, it is only possible if you do not know much about her, so you cannot see her faults.

Nobel Lectures, Physics 1963-1970, The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics, Elsevier Publishing Co. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1972