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?

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.

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.

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

Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

In my next life, I want to come back as one of my dogs. They live nicely.

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!