We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.