I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

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

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

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

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

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

Merry Christmas, I whisper to myself. Merry Christmas, Nate.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.

The greatest source of inspiration for me has been my wife; she is the love of my life, my best friend, and my most ardent supporter.