Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

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.

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

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

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.

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

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