When and How to Talk of One's Self : Page 206

In general the following topics are too personal to share either with a company or with a stranger: ailments associated with unexposed parts of the body, nonobvious sins and vices, personal romantic and sex matters, details of one's salary and bank account, one's imagined complexes, competitive comparisons of one's self with others in matters of looks, intelligence, and prospects. In short, a person may tell his intimate friend, but not a party of friends, that his kidney is ailing, that he got drunk Saturday night, that his wife threatens to go back to her mother, that he has a new girl friend whom he kissed good-night, that he is now making $32.76 a week, that he believes himself stronger or brighter than anyone on his street, or that he fears he is developing an Oedipus Complex.