Dustin Lance Black Quotes

You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

I know a lot of very stable gay couples.

I don't miss being single at all.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

I'm a terrible husband.

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

At the end of the day, you can't take my love for my people away.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'