"It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment
was this perpetual gulf between the well founded commendable
pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men,
the later a force more than any other responsible for the
lamentable state of the world."

From the novel "Wonderboys" by Michael Chabon

I know the photo of my reflection in the TV is boring, but the book was great!