I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

There is absolutely no reward on earth for being a Christian. You get it only on payday in Heaven, not while you are still working for Jesus on earth.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen