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I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.