Quotes from Steve Martini

that matter what's swimming in it.

desk to me. "She had her hair cut like Meg Ryan, the movie star. Everybody

We are a society that sheds spouses and takes on new lovers faster than a raja can work through his harem. We dissolve entire families on a whimsy of lust. We pursue bald ambition as if it were the true religion, leaving our children to come home to empty houses, to fix their own meals, to cope with the crippling insecurities of adolescence, while we engage in an endless chase after the grail of possessions. And we have the audacity to wonder who killed the innocence of childhood.

writes it down. "I'll look and see what I can

Government can do whatever it wants, kick the crap out of their political opponents while ignoring the crimes committed by their friends.

The place was believed to have so many of Cheng's spies working there, gathering information and sending it back to Beijing, that some in the US intelligence community now referred to it not as "Chinatown," but as "Cheng's Town.

denials are the small talk of the lawyer's venue, more common than discussions of the weather

staggering gait. I wonder if he's with the wedding

If the truth be known, they would realize that Cheng's network was far more pervasive, so much so that it had drilled into the very core of the American government in Washington.

Their dealings were grounded not in ideology, but pragmatic common interest—the seeds of which were money and power. The

Maybe they should take a closer look at the people they elect.