Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness..

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white….

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed ….

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy..

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayer….

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke..

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one p….

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patient….

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage..

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad..

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as ….

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win..

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

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date..

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform..

Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going ….

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it..

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals….

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are pe….

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in….

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yoursel….