The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.