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

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

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

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

"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."

"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None."

"I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court."

"A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business."

"You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care."

"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."

"Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing."

"The patient decides when it's best to go."

"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."

"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"

"Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?"

"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma."

"We are all terminal."

"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."

"Let's hope you feel better now."

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

"The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death."

"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."

"What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile."

"I don't persuade to suicide."

"I'm not lying to myself like most people."

"The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right."

"Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way."

"You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems."

"The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?"

"Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van."

"I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die."

"Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything."

"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it."

"It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it."

"I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!"

"I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through."

"I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly."

"I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing."

"There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could."

"Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa."

"Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!"

"I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal."

"Homo Sapiens and their guns."

"It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant."

"Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them."

"I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life."

"I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should."

"A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style."

"Life at best is bittersweet."

"I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six."