It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that-looking at our scrapbook of madness.

I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.