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 sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

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.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.