[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Page is married to Lynn Stegner a novelist. Stegner also won the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird in 1977.

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18 1909 – April 13 1993) was an American historian novelist short story writer and environmentalist often called "The Dean of Western Writers". National Book Award in 1977. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.