Occupation: Journalist Birth: September 25, 1929
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis..
Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex..
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties..
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, yo….
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter..
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and wha….
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties..
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen….
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of….
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative..
Après ski is my favorite sport..
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself..
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which….
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on….
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines..
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived..
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still..
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling..
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship..
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't..
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automaticall….