High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.