We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.