To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

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 computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.