I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

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.

People who have suffered understand pain and are often the best at helping others.

Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.

Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.