For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.