“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”

“Relationships are good
for at least two poems—
One at the beginning
and one at the end.”

“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.”

“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

“One's not half of two; two are halves of one.”

“In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.”

“Relationship (definition): Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.”

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.”

“In every relationship there are two halves of that relationship. One half is you, and the other half is your son, your daughter, your father, your mother, your friend, your partner. Of those halves, you are only responsible for your half; you are not responsible for the other half.”