Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

The problem isn't that we have bodies; the problem is that we're not living in them.