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

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

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 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.

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.

With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Everything is a part of destiny’s plan and I believe true love awaits its destiny.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.