The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.