You can’t meet your heroes—because they are, in the end, just an idea, that lives inside you.
There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you’re comfortably middle-class, what’s the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 per cent and leave your bins, unemptied...
There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.
I’m very into the idea of sorting things out through superior paperwork. This is my favorite transformatory power.
It’s amazing how much you can find to say when there’s one big thing you’re too afraid to say: ‘This isn’t working.
In that instance, my body had decided that this baby was not to be and had ended it. This time, it is my mind that has decided that this baby was not to be. I don't believe one's decision is more vali...
If you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it’s never-ending summer.
I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse.
I will NOT be reading when we fly. My face is pressed against the window. When we fly, I am going to be absolutely present for every meter and every cloud. No one will EVER have flown more than me.
A gig, I realise now, is a place where people come together and give permission for anything to happen. Things can be said and shouted and sung; people get pissed; people get kissed - there is a commu...
There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.
Throughout history, you can read the stories of women who—against all the odds—got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled, or ruined, because all around them society was...
Think about how brave it is, to do this: to queue up, and meet your hero. There’s something incredibly intimate about reading, or listening, or looking at someone else’s art. When it truly moves you—w...
Theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich characterizes anxiety into three categories: ontic anxiety is the fear of fate and death. The second is moral anxiety, from guilt, or condemnation. The third is spirit...
When God gives you no lemons - make nonmonade!
The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.
The idea of simply trotting around the world with John, for a year or more, is obviously, what Willy Wonka would have put in a special chocolate bar for me.
Tehát ha azt kérdeznék, tudom-e már, hogy kell nőnek lenni, így felelnék: „Őszintén szólva nagyjából igen. Mert ha az ebben a könyvben szereplő történetek egyetlen revelációvá állnak össze, az a köve...
Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that’s why it’s come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It’s a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully func...
My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it