“I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.”

“Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians." Well, I love America. But there are too many hateful Americans.”

“That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.”

“There a lot of things I can't do," he says. "With my... health.""Well," I say, "can you kiss girls?”

“I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.”

“In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.”