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.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

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

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.