The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

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?

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

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

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