If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

Do human beings have an infinite amount of energy with which to resist death? It is kinder and more accurate to say that they fought until they had no more fight left in them.

The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.

Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

People are motivated when they see somebody else doing something.