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

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

Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.

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.

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

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.