"Dying is not a crime."

"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."

"My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience."

"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

"Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button."

"Everyone is going to die."

"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."

"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 will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."

"If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering."

"My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized."

"If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror."

"I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months."

"I have no regrets, none whatsoever."

"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."

"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 don't crave publicity, you know."

"The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much."

"The law doesn't create a right."

"Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it."

"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."

"What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary."

"Many support what I am doing."

"Liberty means more to me than life itself."

"I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right."

"Fear controls you."

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

"If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad."

"I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born."

"The law is cruel."

"How can you regret helping a suffering patient?"

"I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults."

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

"I am not a sentimental person."

"You've gotta know what death is to know life!"

"I'm not a romantic."

"I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends."

"I can paint in jail."

"I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do."

"I'm not radical."

"I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death."

"This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened."

"I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it."

"When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing."

"I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us."

"There is nothing anyone can do anyway. 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."

"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares."

"I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets."

"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."