Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

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 good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.