Social Intercourse: Sounds Like a Drag

"I do not want to spend too long a time with boring people, but then I do not want to spend too long a time with amusing ones.  I find social intercourse fatiguing.  Most persons, I think, are both exhilarated and rested by conversation; to me it has always been an effort.  When I was young and stammered, to talk for long singularly exhausted me, and even now I have to some extent cured myself, it is a strain.  It is a relief to me when I can get away and read a book."

----W. Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"

I concur.  Less conversation and less social engagement does a body good.