I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.

If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.