Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and teaches at Princeton University and 92nd Street Y.
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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.
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.
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.
Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.
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.
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.
Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy.
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
Christmas cards. . . are technically only junk mail from people you know.