When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.