I'm Very Much A Believer

... The State Of Rapture I Experience When I Read A Wonderful Book Is One Of The Main Reasons I Read; But It Doesn't Happen Every Time Or Even Every Other Time, And When It Does Happen, I Am Truly Beside Myself.

Working As A Journalist Is Exactly Like Being The Wallflower At An Orgy. I Always Seem To Find Myself At A Perfectly Wonderful Event Where Everyone Else Is Having A Marvelous Time, Laughing Merrily, Eating, Drinking, Having Sex In The Back Room, And I Am Standing On The Side Taking Notes On It All.

The Washington Press Corps Thinks That Julie Nixon Eisenhower Is The Only Member Of The Nixon Administration Who Has Any Credibility--and, As One Journalist Put It, This Is Not To Say That Anyone Believes What She Is Saying But Simply That People Believe She Believes What She Is Sayingit Is Almost As If She Is The Only Woman In America Over The Age Of Twenty Who Still Thinks Her Father Is Exactly What She Thought He Was When She Was Six.

What Failure Ofimagination Had Caused Me To Forget That Life Was Full Of Other Possiblities, Including The Possibility That Eventually I Would Fall In Love Again?

So, Twice A Week, I Go To A Beauty Salon And Have My Hair Blown Dry. It’s Cheaper By Far Than Psychoanalysis, And Much More Uplifting.