When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

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

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

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

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

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 irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.