Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Iraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try.

I can never get used to not having you around Nanay. I travel the world but I can't find anybody like you!

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.