“It’s very easy to make faux pas when you’re talking to a person who’s in love, because they’re more sensitive about everything. I remember once I was at a dinner party and I was talking to a couple who looked so happy together and I said, “You are the happiest looking couple I’ve ever seen.’ That was okay and then I went that little bit further to score my nightly faux pas. ‘It must have been like a storybook dream story. I just know that you were childhood sweethearts.’ And at that point their faces fell and they turned away and avoided me for the rest of the evening. I found out later that they had deserted their husbands and wives and families to go after each other. When people are in love all their problems are in strange proportions and it’s hard to know when you’re saying the wrong thing.”
Andy Warhol, “Fame”, 1975.
