...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.

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.

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.

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

Relationships are never chance events.

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