I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.