Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

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

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.