The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.