Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.

I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.