“Yes, we have set a wedding date. How do I feel about it? I obviously feel like it’s long overdue. I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous that we don’t all have the same rights.”

“Gay people get married in California, so why is God taking it out on the Midwest?”

“It’s (same-sex marriage in the U.S.) way overdue. It’s something that happened ... almost without a whisper in England, but it was basically because we weren’t that concerned about the word ‘marriage.’ Because (the U.S.) is a much more religious society, there are a huge number of people who want (their) unions to be part of something that they can place in their religion, so (marriage is) much more important here. I think that’s why it’s so long in arriving here, but I think it’s fantastic, obviously.”

“When we first got together, and moved into the apartment, it was difficult because both of us had been living alone, we hadn’t had this other person to trip over. And so we’d start arguments, and Del would just go out the front door and slam it and walk around the block then come back. I tried to teach Del to argue back. And then somebody gave us a kitten, which I’ve said kept us together for the first year, because we couldn’t work out how to divide the kitten. But we kept ourselves busy and we bought the house and we got ourselves all wrapped up in each other, and we kept ourselves in love. And basically, that did it.”