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

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.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

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

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

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