I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

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.

Pain is a pleasure in disguise.

I came

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Always Remember... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.