You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.