Reality Is The Only Obstacle To Happiness.

There Is No Business Like Show Business, Irving Berlin Once Proclaimed, And Thirty Years Ago He May Have Been Right, But Not Anymore. Nowadays Almost Every Business Is Like Show Business, Including Politics, Which Has Become More Like Show Business Than Show Business Is.

Sending Grown-ups Up The Wall Is One Of The Things Adolescence Is All About. A Few Years Ago It Was Done With Rock 'n' Roll Music. Now At Least They Can Do It Quietly With A Home Computer.

It's Good For The Soul To Hear Yourself As Others Hear You, And Next Time Maybe, Just Maybe, You Will Not Talk So Much, So Loudly, So Brilliantly, So Charmingly, So Utterly Shamelessly Foolishly.

People Seem To Enjoy Things More When They Know A Lot Of Other People Have Been Left Out Of The Pleasure.

The Lobbies Of The New Hotels And The Pan American Building Exhale A Chill As From The Unopened Pharaonic Tombs... And In Their Marble Labyrinths There Is An Evil Presence That Hates Warmth And Sunlight.