Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

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.

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow

Better undead than dead.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.