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

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.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Be reckless in your intensities.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.