Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Oh--won't we party hard when L.A. goes kersplash?...L.A. fell in the ocean?... There is a God. He loves us all so much.

That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most.

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.