Hold the basket of puppies

"Look, I know what people's automatic responses are. And sometimes you work with them, and sometimes you work against them. In almost any scene, you can go with an applause ending or a transitional ending. It's like, sometimes you think, Oh, shit, please don't kiss now, and they don't, and you say, 'Thank God.' At other times, here it comes, here it comes, and -- yay! -- it happens. But you can't bring out the basket of puppies every time."
- Choreographer Mark Morris, in The New Yorker