The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.

I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.

I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

The specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable. Despite significant global advances, inability to effectively address epidemics and health emergencies still prevail and continuously threaten global health security and economic development.