The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

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.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

If the present is left unopened, now, it is closed.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?