This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves as a possession.

Among the letters my readers write me there is a certain category which is continuously growing and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

When writing comedy you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world and we are all having it that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

If you look back on the breakups that you've had whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand it's always awkward.

I want you to know that despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months the U.S.-Canada relationship.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

For me the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Challenge is good for any relationship.