I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)