Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.