Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?