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

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.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

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

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