Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

You must have something in order to give it up.

The essence of life is the power of love.

I’m good at being vague and unpredictable. It’s sort of a hard habit to break.

Love enters us like a vague ailment. Your head spins. Your underarms tingle. Love hurts and love has consequences: marriage, babies, separation, longing, human complications.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.