Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective peo… - Wendy Wasserstein

SCOOP: Peter, do people like you ever wonder what it’s all for?
PETER: People like you run the world. You decide what it’s all for.

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.

Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it.