I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

Faith means be faithfulness to God.

The world is full of places I haven't been.

The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.