I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.