I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.