Perry Brass Quotes

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.

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.

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.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Be reckless in your intensities.

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.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

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

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

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.

Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.

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

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.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

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

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 you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?

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

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.

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?

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

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.