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

Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

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.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

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

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

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