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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.