Life doesn't really offer that many pleasures that you can go around avoiding the obvious ones. - Wendy Wasserstein

In the world of The Age of Innocence, a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

KATE: “At fourteen months little girls’ fingers and pacifiers are introduced into the vagina, and at fifteen months a girl baby has been known to fall asleep with her genitalia on her teddy bear. Finally, at sixteen months they start using a pencil.”
SAMANTHA: Don’t little boys use pencils?
HOLLY: No. They write with their cocks.