If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.