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

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

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?

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

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?

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

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.