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?

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

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

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

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

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

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.