You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.