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

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.

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.

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.

Our inner Witch isn't something we acquire.It's already within us. It's something we become ready and willing to experience. Something we realize we ARE.

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.