“I suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to look like. One of us was always angry.”
“Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.”
“It's not always rainbows and butterflies. It's compromise that moves us along.”
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand—that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”
“You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work.”
“A good compromise leaves everyone angry.”