Insanity is a lack of proportion.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.