“I’ve always enjoyed it—traveling, meeting people, taking Eliot’s message on the road. It’s fascinating, it’s inspiring.” —Silda Wall

“I wasn’t ready to get serious. I was always open to the idea of a pretty woman, but not a long-term relationship.” —Ian Smith

“We share so much. The need to make things happen is something that we share. It’s the shared drive and the understanding of the drive in the other person.” —Michael Lehrer

“Our individual ambitions and work types are not a competitive thing. I don’t play an instrument and he doesn’t claim to write music.” —Luna Pearl Woolf

“The thing that embarrasses the rest of us is that with all the challenges of having four children—and the health issues they’ve confronted along the way—they also manage to maintain this level of creative productivity that’s kind of flabbergasting and annoying.” —David Kissinger on Rob and Claire LaZebnik

“Every woman is continually—with training or without—psychoanalyzing her significant other. My wife just has more tools at her disposal to rectify my shortcomings. And I studiously resist all of them.” —Robert Young Jr.

“I’m angrier about political issues. Cass wants to be liked for what he says when he goes to Washington to talk to the Republicans. He wants them to be won over by his sweet reasonableness. I wouldn’t care what they thought.” —Martha Nussbaum

“In the early days, we felt like we knew each other a lot better than we actually did. We had experienced so many big events in the same place, at the same time, even though we didn’t know each other yet.” —Anula Jayasuriya