Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.