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

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

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Be reckless in your intensities.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

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

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.