The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.

The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

Do human beings have an infinite amount of energy with which to resist death? It is kinder and more accurate to say that they fought until they had no more fight left in them.

I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Time takes all and gives all

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority

The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated... There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.