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

If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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

Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?

Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.