A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

Everything in life is just for a while.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.