Retailing is the art of selling something that is not necessary to people who are. Anyone who does not understand this sooner, rather than later, goes out of business.

Perry Brass

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

wanting-someone life way

There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

fighting strength life

Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

gay racism believe

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

demon tomorrow today

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

fool sexy path

Be reckless in your intensities.

reckless intensity

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

entertainment appreciate tvs

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

indispensable fashion art

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?

teenage gay girl

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

rainstorms middle house

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

computer light people

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 parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.

running doors hands

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.

return life way

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.

stupid love people

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 heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

revenge men years

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

networking hell common

Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.

next brain joy

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

doe running water

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.

fake people world

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

hurt loss thinking