For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.