“A successful marriage is coalition governance that has many compromises and sacrifices.”

“Jealousy is still an incurable virus, that has neither a vaccine nor a treatment.”

“I cannot convince you if your thinking cap is inside out?”

“Arguing for the sake of arguing is not a bad habit, it is a chronic disease”.”

“Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.”

“Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.”

“How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.”