"I went to high school in Indianapolis with a nice girl named Barbara Masters. Her father was an eye doctor in our town. She is now the wife of our Secretary of Defense.
I was having lunch in Indianapolis recently with another man who had known her in school. He said this: ÔWhen you get to be our age, you all of a sudden realize that you are being ruled by people you went to high school with.'
"He was uncomfortably silent for a moment, then he said: ÔYou all of a sudden catch on that life is nothing but high school. You make a fool of yourself in high school, then you go to college and learn how you should have acted in high school, and then you get out into real life, and that turns out to be high school all over againÑclass officers, cheerleaders, and all.'"
Ñ Passage from Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut
