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

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.

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.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.