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

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

...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)

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

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Relationships are never chance events.