Judith Viorst

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.