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

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

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.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

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