A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this?

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.