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.

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.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

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

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

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.