The Final Status Ain’t Hood

“To judge from what the President said, any hint of lawlessness can be redeemed if undertaken unselfishly for patriotic reasons. It's an argument that would have warmed Nazi hearts at Nuremberg.”

“Most vampire tales I’ve read lately read like little Kinsey reports, full of tasty trivia about vam­pire life, a subject that used to be shrouded in mystery and fear, like sex. Are you ready to open the forbidden curtain?”

“The 34-year-old millionaire developer weaned on Brooklyn Democrat­ic politics was once again going after a spectacular tax break”

“A government-run Post Office was provided for at the beginning of the nation's history because of Ben Franklin's influence. Presumably at one point or another the goddamn thing worked”

“His office’s apparent mishandling of solid BCCI leads is fair crit­icism of him whether he did or did not know about it: he missed a golden opportu­nity to examine the so-called Bank of Crooks and Criminals”

"Since October 1985, rock has been attacked from city halls, statehouses, fundamentalist pulpits, and the executive echelons of the FBI."