Quotes from Perry Brass

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

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.

Tell someone who may be in an excellent position to get even with you, to "go fuck himself." The satisfaction will do you more good than the anxiety.

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.

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

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

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

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 same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that "Image is Everything," also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair.

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.

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.

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. Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors.

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

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

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.

War was invented was to allow men who never grew up to do the things they always wanted to do as kids: mess up their rooms, wear funny clothes, sleep in a room with a lot of strangers, dirty up other people's houses and then take their toys away.

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

If you are what you eat, then why aren't you what you desire?" Desire stands in the great no-man's land of human activity: the zone of most conflict, fear, and anxiety. It scares us. We are often asked to hate it—by those who claim to have given it up for "better" things, and who often, hypocritically, haven't.