Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful and no one is finding fault with me personally.

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.