Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.