Be reckless in your intensities.
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.
Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.
Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.
Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.
Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.