“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

“Sarcasm is one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions!”

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”

“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”

“She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for trade on the market and everyone's trying to trade up, up--like there is a 'trading up' in love." She rolled her eyes. "No way. That's not for me. I'm having one husband. I'm getting married once. When you know going in that you're staying for life, it makes you think harder about it, go slower, choose really well.”