A Dance to the Music of Time. Volume 1: Spring

Woman may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they will marry anybody.

Marriage, as I have said, is a form of action, of violence almost; an assertion of the will. Its orbit is not to be chartered with precision, if misrepresentation and contrivance are to be avoided. Its facts can perhaps only be known by implication. It is a state from which all objectivity has been removed.