The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing…

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Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

I'm not a nice person.

I'm not a nice person.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a...

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a...

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of...

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of...

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but...

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but...

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies...

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign...

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband...

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash...

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that...

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that...

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another...

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to...