“Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.”
“How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.”
“What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.”
“I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet.”
“The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”
“There are some strange cold people in this world. It is priests, I think...Training themselves out of natural feeling. They mean it for the best, of course.”