It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."