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

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

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