It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came