The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

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

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

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.

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

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.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.