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.

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

Be reckless in your intensities.

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

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

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.