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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

—Garry Shandling

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My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

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Those who marry God can become domesticated too — it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. . . . It was God's taste to be worshiped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours, like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

—Graham Greene

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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

—Marcel Archard

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By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

—Socrates

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Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Jane Austen

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That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

—Willa Cather

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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate. And you are not giving to the other person; you are giving to the relationship. Because you are not giving to the other person, it is not impoverishing — it is life-building, life-fostering, enriching.

—Joseph Campbell

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I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

—Pablo Neruda

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

—Jane Smiley

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The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

—Unknown

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We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. . . . We amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

—John Cheever

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Love's a fire, but whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you never can tell.

—Joan Crawford

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Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

—Butch Hancock

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of our selves.

—Victor Hugo

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