Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.