“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.”

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

“He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.”

“Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”

“People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.”

“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”

“Too little payment for a crime, too much for an accident.”

“… beds last on an average much longer than marriages…”

“What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.”