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.

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

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

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

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

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