In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

I am one hundred percent ready to be a spokesperson for the deaf community.

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Don't ever think you are nothing. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be someone who thinks you are everything.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.