Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

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.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.