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

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.

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.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

I'm really, really emotional.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.