“All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.”
“Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.”
“Sex is all right” he says“It’s all right at the time, and it’s all right before” says Lise, “but the problem is afterwards. That is, if you’re not an animal. Most of the time, afterwards is pretty sad.”
“A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.”
“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”
“To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems”