Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as read more

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has read more

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving read more

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

Birth is the beginning of death

Birth is the beginning of death

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.