Perry Brass Quotes

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

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

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

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.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.

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.

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

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

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

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

Be reckless in your intensities.

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 you might suddenly realize you love.

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.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

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

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

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.

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

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