Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.

If variety is the spice of life marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise a matter of taste but of no importance.

After a while in marriage it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something and after a while we hate what we used to love.

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

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

After marriage the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

I suffered I really suffered with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Divorce these days is a religious vow as if the proper offspring of marriage.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

In interviews I gave early on in my career I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job marriage and children. In some respects I was a social adolescent.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it people.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

When you're a father in a marriage you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity the marriage is more important than fidelity.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality birth within marriage parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

Marriage is socialism among two people.