My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system the society.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society differently and you have to respond to it differently.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

The real man smiles in trouble gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew a troubled kid who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than ahem Charles Manson!

If you don't know about pain and trouble you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.