I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.