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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I do not regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can not have it all.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

The only day I remember of my parents marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Straight couples do not have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy is not compulsory and its absence Does not invalidate a marriage.

I am more afraid of marriage than death.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

My father was very big on marriage.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I am not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you are together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, you take care of this and you know. But it is hard.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

If you've gone into a marriage and you have not been clear about how you are going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.