Michael Chabon Quotes

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.

Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.