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.

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

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.

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

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

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.

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