A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

maturity ... is letting things happen.