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

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

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

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.

There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

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

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.