Birth: September 15, 1947
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 ….
Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex." In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make yo….
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous..
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 nu….
The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their head….
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 w….
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 ….
Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction..
The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow..
Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. I….
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 par….
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 unappetizin….
Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do..
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..
Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it..
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….
Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom ….
Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience. Co….
Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough..
Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously..