The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"

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.