Exercise Is The Yuppie Version Of Bulimia.

The Less Sophisticated Of My Forbears Avoided Foreigners At All Costs, For The Very Good Reason That, In Their Circles, Speaking In Tongues Was Commonly A Prelude To Snake Handling. The More Tolerant Among Us Regarded Foreign Languages As A Kind Of Speech Impediment That Could Be Overcome By Willpower.

Crime Seems To Change Character When It Crosses A Bridge Or A Tunnel. In The City, Crime Is Taken As Emblematic Of Class And Race. In The Suburbs Though, It's Intimate And Psychological, A Mystery Resist To Generalization, A Mystery Of The Individual Soul.

There Seems To Be No Stopping Drug Frenzy Once It Takes Hold Of A Nation. What Starts With An Innocuous Hugs, Not Drugs Bumper Sticker Soon Leads To Wild Talk Of Shooting Dealers And Making Urine Tests A Condition For Employment -- Anywhere.

Marriage Is Socialism Among Two People.

If You Can Attribute Your Success Entirely To Your Own Mental Effort, To Your Own Attitude, To Some Spiritual Essence That You Have That Is Better Than Other Peoples, Then That Must Feel Pretty Good.