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

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.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

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

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

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

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