"None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them."

"This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law."

"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."

"There's no doubt I expect to die in prison."

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

"Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out."

"What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"I'm not radical."

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

"I can paint in jail."

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

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

"I am not a sentimental person."

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

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