Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

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

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

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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.