War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.