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I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.