The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.