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.

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.

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

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

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

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

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