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.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

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

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

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.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

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.