Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.