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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.