fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.