Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?

We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Life provides the substance for poetry we just have to put it to paper

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.("The Wendigo")

Mathematics is Open Source.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.