When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

When you're in love, the sun never stops shining.

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

True creativity is more likely if you are more relaxed

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'