… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either