“There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then th...” — Norman Mailer Quote

“There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.”

“Once, in a rainstorm, I witnessed the creation of a rivulet. The water had come down, the stream had begun in a hollow of earth the size of a leaf. Then it filled and began to flow. The rivulet rolled down the hill between some stalks of grass and weed, it moved in spurts, down the fall of a ledge, down to a brook. It did not know it was not a river.”

“Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.”

“Casi todos nuestros clientes dejan de existir -¡no queda el alma!- o los reencarna el Dummkopf, al que no le gusta ceder a ninguna de sus criaturas, grandes o pequeñas, juiciosas o insensatas, lo cual puede que sea una razón de que el mundo esté cada vez más plagado de mediocridad.”

“The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture”

“We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.”

“Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.”

“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.”

“I'm a pro-choice candidate and I support marriage equality - my brother is actually gay and married. But I'm a pretty hard-headed guy when it comes to the budget and whether you're getting a bang for your buck.”

“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”