Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

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

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

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

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.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

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