Patricia Marx
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.Collection: Teacher
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?Collection: Architecture
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.Collection: Mammals
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.Collection: Littles
Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waitingCollection: Long
It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.Collection: Fall
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.Collection: Trouble
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.Collection: Chinese
I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.Collection: Blessed
Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.Collection: Mother
Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.Collection: Christmas
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.Collection: New York
What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.Collection: Giving
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.Collection: New York
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.Collection: Sometimes
"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.Collection: Practice
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.Collection: Unknown Person
Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.Collection: Waiting
Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.Collection: Pretty Woman
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.Collection: Stupid