The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.