I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when
and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the rest
of their lives—a question of which no man or woman can be automatically
certain. When one is certain that one’s choice is final, then marriage is, of
course, a desirable state. But this does not mean that any relationship based
on less than total certainty is improper. I think the question of an affair or
a marriage depends on the knowledge and the position of the two persons
involved and should be left up to them. Either is moral, provided only that
both parties take the relationship seriously and that it is based on values.