Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Where words fail, music speaks.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Discipline must be maintained.

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Its not that I like men sexually, just that I can admit when they are beautiful. But sexually I need a woman.

I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head