Be reckless in your intensities.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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

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.

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?

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

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.