NJ.com: Dear Annie: My husband says he loves me, yet he can’t seem to give me physical affection
Dear Annie: My husband says he loves me, yet he can’t seem to give me physical affection
Sun Sentinel: Asking Eric: He says he loves me. Why won’t he ask me to be his girlfriend?
Asking Eric: He says he loves me. Why won’t he ask me to be his girlfriend?
@RiMMER: Contracting "he has an apple" to "he's an apple" is common in some dialects of English. Sometimes an extra bit is added on which has the side effect of disambiguating - "Ooh, he's a lovely house he 'as" but that's an unrelated pattern of speech.
The infinitive is definitely required for this meaning; but the tensed form goes is also correct. However, it means something quite different -- it means she said that he attends the cinema regularly.
Worth noting: though the validity of he don’t in various dialects is debatable, I’ve yet to come across a dialect in which he doesn’t isn’t considered correct. In other words, as a non-native speaker it is always safest to err on the side of caution and use he doesn’t. Speakers of ‘don’t dialects’ might possibly find it a tad uppity or overly formal—but not incorrect.
Which you use is a matter of preference, each with its relative merits and issues: "he or she" is unlikely to upset anybody for violating either their ideologies or belief in Victorian grammar, but it's a bit long-winded; "he", using the masculine form as 'default' when the gender is unknown, has plenty of counterparts in plenty of languages, but feminists may get upset that you're not ...