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

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.

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.

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

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.

It struck him that there is a beautiful symmetry to life.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .