Dave Eggers Quotes

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.

There is no 100 percent pre-nup.

Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.

I think there's a good-er divorce. I think that's absolutely possible. There's a better way to do it and everything in between, and then, of course, there's the disastrous way to do it.

My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

I have worked and earned all my life and have found that divorce is an expensive process. Whichever way you look at it, you are going to halve your wealth. If you can avoid it, do. It is an awful process.

Divorce has been very, very good to me.

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.