From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Skinny is only one body type.