No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.