The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

I love marriage.