My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I was born in New York.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.