“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”

“Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn't get pregnant, see?”

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

“They’re serious” “Well I hope so, they are getting married”

“Uncle Mort after explaining to Lex and Driggs that the ether, Elixir, and other things affects fertility: That doesn't mean you get a free pass to ride the baloney pony whenever you want to. Got it?”

“Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.”