“Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable o...” — Judith Viorst Quote

“Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.”

“Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.”

“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother and child through the momentary extinction of the self. It is true that few of us consciously climb into a lover's bed in the hope of finding our mommy between the sheets. But the sexual loss of our separateness (which may scare people so badly they cannot have orgasm) brings us pleasure, in part, because it unconsciously repeats our first connection.”

“Even in our understanding of surviving on the Great Plains, they would cover this enormous amount of ground. I imagine these people's base skill set, it would be adaptable to so many different places, and so I admire that.”

“Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable.”