I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

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.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.