Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

Your clothes are an extra skin, and if you feel good in them, you radiate confidence and then the clothes are just the background. If you go out and wear the most beautiful thing but you don't feel good in it, you are not 100% present. You are worrying about the collar or the fit - the key thing for me is to be present in what I'm doing rather than worrying about my clothes.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.