Judith Guest

“I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.”

“With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.”

“I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.”

“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”

“It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.”

“Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.”

“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”

“It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.”

“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...”

“Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.”

“. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.”

“I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.”

“I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.”

“My success is not who I am.”

“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”

“I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!”

“Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.”

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

“I've never been one to tear the social fabric.”

“Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.”