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

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

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

Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?

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.