At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Failure too is a form of death.

Simplicity belonged by right to those who were native-born, those who could take the conditions of life, however bizarre, for granted.

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Marriage is a wonderful thing. It is more important to like the person you marry than it is to love them.

I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures - and that'…