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.

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

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

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

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